KARACHI, June 27: The dead bodies of the members of a Pakistani family that died in an inferno in their apartment in New York on June 23, will be flown to Karachi on Thursday night by the Edhi Foundation.

The family died in the fire incident in their apartment located in the Brooklyn area of New York. The ill-fated family included Mohammad Nadeem, 43, his wife, and five children aged eight months to 11 years.

The fire which had started in the kitchen of an apartment at the lower floor soon engulfed the upper floor where Mohammad Nadeem and his family were living.

A spokesman for the Edhi Foundation said that the seven bodies were being flown to Karachi from New York in flight PK 722 on Thursday night. From here the bodies would be flown to Lahore by flight PK 302 on Friday morning. Later they would be taken to Sialkot by road.

“The entire expenditure of the transportation, which is around Rs2 million, has been borne by the Edhi Foundation.” The family had been living in the US since 1987 and had recently returned to New York after visiting their native town Sialkot.