By Carolyn Quek

THE bodies of air traffic controller Leslie Yeo, 40, and student Lu Weiye, 26, were flown home from Bangkok late last night, accompanied by their family members.

The wakes for the two men, who died in a pub fire in Thailand on New Year's Day, will be held at their homes in Punggol and Bedok from today.

Before leaving Bangkok, the men's coffins were placed next to each other at the Police General Hospital mortuary, fronted by porcelain urns holding joss sticks.

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