THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: People from all walks of life gathered on Friday to bid adieu to Praveen Krishnan Nair, his wife Sharanya and children Shreebadra (9), Archa (6) and Abhinav (5) who died after inhaling some poisonous gas at a resort room in Nepal. Their mortal remains were cremated at the premises of Nair’s house in the presence of hundreds of people. The funeral pyre was lit by Sharanya’s three-year-old nephew Aarav. Aarav is the son of Sharanya’s sister Aishwarya.

Nair was working in UAE and was on a short vacation when his pleasure trip turned a tragedy. Sharanya was a second year M.Pharm student of Amrita University. He did the last rites sitting on his father Jibi’s lap. The bodies of the three children were buried in the same pit and that of their parents were cremated on separate pits next to them.

Many paid their last respects at the bodies kept in front of Praveen’s house. Many struggled to control their emotions seeing the bodies of the five.