India, June 24 -- The mortal remains of Ranjitha G Nair, the Kerala native killed in the Ahmedabad Air India on June 12 crash this month, was brought to her home state on Tuesday.

Nair (40) worked as a nurse in the United Kingdom (UK) and had recently returned to Kerala on a short leave to complete some formalities for her rejoining as a state government health worker. She was returning to London aboard the ill-fated Air India flight 171 which crashed into the hostel block of a medical college in Ahmedabad shortly after take-off on June 12.

It was after 11 days that Nair's body was identified through DNA examination in Ahmedabad.

The nurse's mortal remains were brought to the Thiruvananthapuram international airport early Tuesday and t...