The bodies of 34 Lebanese citizens who drowned off the Indonesian coast in a tragic boat accident last month were returned to Lebanon Thursday noon.

Most of the perished asylum-seekers hailed from the underdeveloped area of north Lebanon, mainly from the Akkar village of Qabeet.

DNA tests were conducted on the bodies earlier this month.

Several officials, including caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel, Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour and Information Minister Walid al-Daouk, as well as political and spiritual figures were among the crowd who came to receive the victims' bodies.

The National News Agency had identified the bodies of the victims as: Kawthar Mohammad Taleb, Reem Hussein Khodr, Wafaa Hussein Khodr, Ali Hussein Khodr, Ahmad Hussein Khodr, Rawaa Hussein Khodr, Malak Hussein Khodr, Rana Hussein Khodr, Mariam Hussein Khodr, Rayya Mohammad Taleb, Dania Assaad Assaad, Maya Assaad Assaad, Aida Ali Al-Mohammad, Fatima Omar Mahmoud, Wouroud Omar Mahmoud, Talal al-Rai, Nour Talal al-Rai, Karim Talal al-Rai, Mariam Yehya al-Ghemrawi, Sarab Mohammad Abdel Hay, Bassam Osman, Ibtisam Osman, Mohammad Khodr Jadid, Basel Ahmad al-Masri, Mahmoud Khaled Naser, Mohammad al-Hibawi, Manal Ali Hamze, Omar Mohammad Abbas, Abdullah Omar Jawhar, Mustafa Ahmad Abdo, Jamil al-Rai, Khadija Saleh al-Dali, Ali Mamdouh Awad and Ibrahim al-Mahmoud.