Sindh CM announces financial assistance for victims of Iran bus accident

KARACHI:  Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has announced financial assistance to the families of the victims of the Iran accident and the injured.

4 days ago, a bus of Pakistani pilgrims met with an accident in Iran, in which 35 Pakistanis were killed and 15 were injured.

After which now Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali has announced to provide financial support to the families of the martyrs and the injured.

According to the spokesman of the Chief Minister of Sindh, the family of the martyred in the Iran accident will be given Rs 5 million compensation for the families of those who tragically lost their lives, while the injured will be given Rs 1 million per person.

He further said that the Sindh government has also made complete arrangements to bring back the dead bodies of the martyrs on the instructions of Chairman Pakistan people’s Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.

Out of the 28 pilgrims who died in the road accident, 10 were from Larkana, six from Kashmore, four from Khairpur, three from Kambar-Shahdadkot, three from Karachi, and one each from Dadu and Jamshoro.

A total of 25 people were injured in the incident, with eight from Larkana, five from Kambar-Shahdadkot, four from Khairpur, three from Dadu, four each from Naushehroferoze, Shikarpur, Karachi, and Sehwan, and one from Balochistan.

Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, at the request of Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, sent a C-130 to Iran to bring back the bodies and injured individuals from a tragic road accident.

The Sindh government has arranged air ambulances and ground ambulances to transport the bodies from the airport to their respective cities/towns and to shift the injured to hospitals via air ambulance if they are being transferred to Karachi.

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Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah sent Minister of Energy Nasir Shah to Sukkur/Jacobabad (airports) to finalise the arrangements and receive the bodies to shift them to their respective areas.