India | Updated Jun 18, 2007 at 12:20pm IST

Funeral for Loganathan, Minal on Friday

CNN-IBN

New Delhi: The funeral of Professor G V Loganathan and Minal Panchal will be held on Friday.

Both of them died in the Virginia Tech shooting on Monday when a gunman, identified as a student named Seung-Hui Cho, killed 32 people at the Virginia University before committing suicide.

Professor Loganathan's funeral service will be held in Blacksburg, where he had served as a Professor in the Engineering Department.

The University authorities handed over the body to his family members late on Thursday.

Meanwhile, the last rites of 26-year-old Panchal will be performed at Odenton, Maryland near Baltimore.

Both Professor Loganathan and Panchal were in the same room when Seung-Hui Cho went on the rampage.

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