Sunday Times 2
Bodies of Australians executed in Indonesia arrive home
View(s):SYDNEY, May 2 (AFP) -Relatives of two men executed in Indonesia arrived back in Australia today on a flight believed to have been carrying the bodies of the pair, whose deaths Prime Minister Tony Abbott has criticised as “cruel and unnecessary”.
Andrew Chan, 31, and Myuran Sukumaran, 34, were killed by firing squad on Wednesday over their role in a plot to bring heroin to Australia from the Indonesian resort island of Bali, despite international pleas for clemency.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation said the bodies were on the flight which touched down in Sydney early Saturday and also carried Sukumaran’s parents, brother and sister and Chan’s wife Febyanti Herewila.
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade was unable to confirm that the men’s bodies were on the plane
Febyanti Herewila (L), widow of executed Australian drug convict Andrew Chan, leaves in a car following the arrival of Chan's remains at the Sydney International Airport (AFP)