In Bangkok
IT IS the same scene over the past four days I visited the mortuary at the Police General Hospital in Bangkok, where most bodies of the Santika night club tragedy are kept, and more and more are being identified and claimed.
Outside, photos of the unidentified dead are slowly taken off - one by one - as soon as it is established who's who.
Scores of relatives line up outside the mortuary office for updates or to settle administrative matters; others cry in anguish as their dead loved one is transferred into a coffin and last rites performed.
A majority of these relatives are Thai, but two sets of Singaporean friends have also been seen there in the past two days.
They have been hoping against hope that Mr Lu Weiye and Mr Leslie Yeo would be alive.
They had searched through forensic photographs in the hope that something familiar would show up.
Their search was finally put to an end on Sunday, though it was not the way they would have wanted it to be,
The two men were positively identified through DNA tests and will assist the families of these men when they reach Bangkok today.
The suddenness of the tragedy has left the families and loved ones of the victims in shock, denial and in need of answers.
A bereaved mother of a 28-year-old Thai victim in the Bangkok nightclub tragedy told me she sought the help of a famous fortune teller to find out what had happened and to ask those still missing to "get out of the club".
Her son was among a group of seven friends that had hit the Santika night club that night; Mr Lu was one of them.
The families and loved ones of these victims must get their answers - not through fortune tellers, but from those responsible for the club.
The tragedy is senseless and preventable, and should never happen again.
And as much as the friends and relatives of Mr Lu and Mr Yeo were hoping that they had gotten out of the club safely, it wasn't to be.
Now, another two bodies will be flown back to Singapore in coffins.