Chennai, July 15 -- The mortal remains of the 10 people from Tamil Nadu who died in the Vietnam boat accident last week arrived in the state on Tuesday.

The remains were flown in from Mumbai. Six bodies were taken to Coimbatore, while the remaining four were brought to Chennai.

Ten people from Tamil Nadu were among the 15 killed when a tourist boat capsized about 400 metres off Hon May Rut Ngoai, an island in the An Thoi archipelago off the coast of Phu Quoc, on July 11. The other victims included three people from Andhra Pradesh and two from Kerala.

The caskets carrying the remains arrived at Mumbai international airport on a Vietnam Airlines flight from Ho Chi Minh City on July 13.

The bodies of Vinaya Kumar Chithapuram Bhaskara (Ve...