THE devastated husband of 28-year-old lawyer Lo Hwei Yen will accompany his wife's body back home from Mumbai on Sunday morning.

Mr Michael Puhaindran, 37, had flown to the financial capital of India on Thursday evening, hours after his wife had called him saying she had been taken hostage by terrorists at the Oberoi Hotel there. He was accompanied by an aunt.

His father, Mr Stanley Puhaindran, flew over this morning following news that Ms Lo's body had been found.

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