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The Latest: India receives bodies of 2 Istanbul club victims

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Friends and relatives carry the coffin of Abis Rizvi for his funeral, outside his house in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017. Rizvi was one of the two Indian victims of the New Year's attack at a popular Istanbul nightclub. The 49-year-old builder, wrote and produced the Bollywood movie in 2014 aimed at spreading awareness about tigers. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) (The Associated Press)

Carnations left at the scene around photo of victims as people protest an attack at a popular nightclub in Istanbul, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017. An assailant believed to be armed with a long-barrelled weapon, opened fire at the nightclub in Istanbul's Ortakoy district during New Year's celebrations, killing dozens of people and wounding many others.(AP Photo/Emrah Gurel) (The Associated Press)

Friends and relatives carry the coffin of Abis Rizvi for his funeral, outside his house in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017. Rizvi was one of the two Indian victims of the New Year's attack at a popular Istanbul nightclub. The 49-year-old builder, wrote and produced the Bollywood movie in 2014 aimed at spreading awareness about tigers. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) (The Associated Press)

The Latest on the Istanbul nightclub attack (all times local):

10:35 a.m.

A Turkish Airlines jet carrying the bodies of two Indian citizens killed in shooting at an Istanbul nightclub last week has landed in Mumbai.

The bodies have been received by a governing party lawmaker, and the victims' relatives and friends.

Bollywood film producer-realtor Abis Rizvi's body was taken to his home in suburban Bandra for burial later Wednesday.

The 49-year-old Rizvi wrote, produced and directed a Bollywood movie "Roar: The Tigers of Sunderbans," in 2014 aimed at spreading awareness about tigers.

The other Indian victim of the Istanbul attack was Khushi Shah, a 39-year-old fashion designer from Vadodara, a city in the western Indian state of Gujarat. Shah's body was flown to her hometown for cremation later Wednesday, the Press Trust of India news agency reported.

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9:35 a.m.

Turkey's state-run news agency says police have detained five suspected Islamic State group militants believed to be linked to the deadly Istanbul nightclub attack.

Anadolu Agency says the operation was launched in the Aegean port city of Izmir on Wednesday. It says the operation in continuing.

The gunman, who killed 39 people during New Year's celebrations, hasn't been publicly named and is still at large.

IS has claimed responsibility for the attack, which also wounded nearly 70 people.