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Justice delayed: Balochistan govt pays compensation to Gadani blast victims after 4 years ANI | Updated: Apr 07, 2021 12:17 IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 7 (ANI): In a case of delayed justice, the Balochistan government on Monday paid compensation to the heirs of 2016 Gadani oil tanker fire blast victims, after four years of the tragedy.
The heirs of the victims received a cheque of Pakistani Rs 500,000 as compensation, reported The News International.
Twenty-one families from across the country - mostly from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and then from Punjab - were each given the cheque at a ceremony.
Twenty-nine workers were killed and over 50 were injured as fire ripped through a decommissioned oil tanker, Aces, moored for dismantling at Plot 54 in the Gadani Ship-Breaking Yard on November 1, 2016.
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After four years, Balochistan govt pays compensation to heirs of Gadani blast victims
Karachi
April 6, 2021
Azima, a middle-aged traditional Baloch woman, was inside her house in Gadani when she heard a blast and minutes later wails of ambulances. She went out to see what had happened and found a thick cloud of smoke on the horizon. She ascended a mound to see that it was emanating from a ship. Thinking of his son, she started running towards it until police stopped her from going ahead.
“My son, Sanaullah, who had turned 18 and started work two months ago was inside that ship which burnt in front my eyes,” she recounted the tragedy of the 2016 Gadani oil tanker fire as she received a cheque of Rs500,000 as compensation from the Balochistan government on Monday. “I would not send any of my children to work in ship-breaking again.”
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