World Bulletin / News Desk

Remains of eight Turks who were killed in an apartment blaze early Sunday in Germany were brought back to Turkey on Tuesday.

The bodies of a woman and seven of her children were taken to a morgue for autopsy.

The victims will be laid to eternal rest in the central province of Afyon on Wednesday.

An investigation was still underway to determine what might have caused the deadly fire in Backnang, a town near Stuttgart.