Chief Minister of Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah has announced compensation for the victims of the blast detonated at the shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar. The chief minister said that there was no price of life but keeping in view the hardships and problems for the families of the victims of the blast some financial assistance is being extended to them.
He said that compensation of Rs 1.5 million would be given to the family of a killed, 1 million for a seriously injured who has lost his/her limb(s) in the blast, 500,000 for seriously injured and 100,000 for minor injured. Syed Murad Ali shah said that under the policy, compensation is only given to the local residents of the province but "this time the compensation would paid to everyone even if he or she is resident of any other province," he said.
Talking about the verification of the killed, critically injured and minor injured, the chief minister said that the Commissioner Hyderabad would verify the claims and recommend the amount of the compensation. "We have already established a detailed record through hospitals, therefore there would be no problem in firming up the recommendations," he said.
He also announced that the PPP government would bear the expenditures of the injured persons apart from giving them compensation. He ordered Commissioner Hyderabad to conduct inquiry and fix the responsibility of the report of recovering limbs of people killed in Sehwan blast from the nearby drain. He lambasted the Deputy Commissioner Jamshoro for not collected the human limbs blew away during the blast across the compound walls of the shrine and dropped into drains.
He ordered the DC Jamshoro to personally go around the shrine, check each and every nearby place and collect human limbs, if any, and burry them with respect. "Thanks to media, otherwise this kind of failure would have unaddressed," he said.
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