The body of King Power and Leicester City football club chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha returned home to Thailand on Friday for a royally sponsored funeral ceremony.
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The bodies of his aide Kaveporn Punpare and employee Nusara Suknamai were expected to arrive on Saturday on a Thai Airways International flight from London. (continues below)
Staff of King Power lower curtains while preparing for Saturday's royally sponsored funeral for Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha at Wat Debsirindrawas. (AP photo)
Members of Vichai's family accompan ied his coffin home from Leicester on a private jet which arrived at Don Mueang airport on Friday afternoon. Waiting vehicles immediately took him to Wat Debsirindrawas.
The bathing rite is scheduled for 5.30pm on Saturday. His Majesty the King has provided funeral water and bestowed an octagonal funerary urn.
The other two people killed in the helicopter crash near the King Power Stadium on Saturday night were pilot Eric Swaffer and passenger Izabela Roza Lechowicz.
Nusara's funeral ceremony will be held at Wat Permtharn in Khlong Luang district of Pathum Thani province. Her family has prepared for the ceremony, starting with a merit-making ceremony on the seventh day of her death.
Her mother, Samroeng, said she still could not come to terms with the loss of her daughter. "She always brought things from Britain for the family, especially good snacks for me," she said at the temple.
The family of Nusara Suknamai hold a merit-making ceremony to mark the seventh day of their loss, at Wat Permtharn in Khlong Luang district in Pathum Thani province on Friday. (Photo by Pongpat Wongyala)