NEW YORK, June 26: The family of seven who died in the fatal Brooklyn apartment fire on Sunday would be flown to Pakistan on Wednesday following a prayer service in Coney Island Mosque.

Mohammad and Yasmeen Nadeem and their five daughters were killed in the fire which started in the apartment building by another Pakistani women cooking food in her second floor apartment.

The Edhi International Foundation, with offices in Corona, Queens, will pay the $20,000 or more it will cost to send the seven bodies to the Nadeems’ hometown, Sialkot.

“Because they don’t have much family over here, they must go home,” a, manager of the Edhi foundation’s local office told reporters.

In accordance with Muslim law, the bodies will be swathed in plain white cloth, symbolizing the equality of all human beings in death.

The deaths of the Nadeems, Mohammad, 40; Yasmeen, 28; Aberra, 13; Romasa, 9; Bisma, 5; Nimra, 3; and Zainab, 9 months, prompted an outpouring of grief and generosity from people across the city and beyond.

A family member of Nadeem family told reporters that he had received dozens of phone calls from people offering money, prayers, condolences and sympathy. Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States, Maleeha Lodhi, called from Washington to give her condolences to the Nadeems’ relatives in Pequannock, New Jersey and to offer help transporting the family’s remains to Pakistan for the quick burial Muslim law requires, an embassy spokesman said.

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