THE families of two Singaporeans killed in the nightclub fire on New Year's Day arrived here to claim the men's bodies yesterday morning.
The relatives of air traffic controller Leslie Yeo Bee Soon, 40 and undergraduate Lu Weiye, 26, first went to Police General Hospital morgue, accompanied by some of the victims' friends and Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials.
But after arriving there, they left without viewing the men's bodies, and headed to the Thong Lor police station.
No reasons were given for this.
At the police station, they filled out some paperwork and were then given Mr Yeo's and Mr Lu's wristwatches - the only possessions of theirs to survive the blaze.
The men's bodies are expected to be flown home today.
Both families were relatively composed yesterday, despite the circumstances.
Only Mr Lu's mother, who hugged her son's friends one by one, broke down, but only briefly.
The last time she saw her son, he was about to leave for Thailand's Assumption Assumption Business Administration College to get a degree.
Yesterday, Mr Lu's flatmate, Mr Jeremy Lu, said the pair had planned to start a venture together after their business administration studies.
'We were really close,' Mr Jeremy Lu said of his friend of more than 10 years.
Mr Lu Weiye and Mr Yeo were among the last victims of the blaze to be identified.
For several days after the fire, they had been listed as missing. It was only on Sunday that their bodies were positively identified via DNA testing and they were confirmed dead.
The New Year's Day blaze at the Santika nightclub in an upscale Bangkok district killed 64 people, including another Singaporean - Mr Yeo's close friend and Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) colleague Teo Sze Siong, 38.
Mr Teo's body was brought home by his two older brothers last Saturday.
Two other Singaporeans who were injured in the blaze, Mr Donald Loh, 38, and his girlfriend, Ms Adeline Tok, 33, are still in hospital in Bangkok.
