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Update | Bodies of two women killed in Bangkok bombing flown home to Hong Kong

Two Hongkongers injured in explosion at shrine are taken to hospital for further treatment

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Vivian Chan's parents travelled to Bangkok when they learned of their daughter's death. Photo: Sam Tsang
Chris Lau,Emily Tsang,Ben WestcottandShirley Zhao

The bodies of the two young women killed in Monday's bombing in Bangkok arrived back in Hong Kong yesterday.

Family members were said to still be in a fragile emotional state, but the parents of Vivian Chan Wing-yan, 19, and Arcadia Pang Wan-chee, 24, had been receiving counselling from the Hospital Authority.

"Thanks to the counselling provided by staff members at the Hospital Authority, their emotional states were OK," said Tong Wing-yee, acting senior immigration officer for international cooperation, at Hong Kong International Airport after returning from Bangkok.

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The women were killed with 18 others when a bomb exploded at the Erawan Shrine, a Hindu religious establishment in the centre of Bangkok and a popular attraction among East Asian tourists. More than 125 others - six of them Hong Kong residents - were injured.

READ MORE: Former Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra doubles the reward offered for capture of Bangkok bomber

Chan's father, businessman Allan Chan Sui-wah, thanked Thai authorities for doing their best to save his daughter, a British national who was studying law in the United Kingdom. He told the Bangkok Post earlier that he had been to Thailand several times and thought it would be safe for his daughter for holiday there.

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