ISLAMABAD:
Opposition Leader Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah has demanded the federal government
to give compensation to the victims of Gadani ship fire tragedy, ARY News
reported.
At
least 20 people were killed and over 22 others were wounded in the blaze after
blasts ripped through an oil tanker at a ship-breaking yard in Gadani.
Khursheed
Shah, in his letter to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, has stated that at least 26
labourers lost their lives in the incident whereas several others were injured
and many others went missing.
The
opposition leader said that the incident was very serious in its nature.
He
demanded the government to pay compensation to the victims of the fire and take
action against those having involvement in the fatal incident.
It
should be noted that the labourers in the ship breaking industry often work in
poor safety conditions without basic protective gear.
The Gadani ship-breaking industry has fallen
on hard times recently and employs about 9,000 workers, fewer than in its boom
years at the end of the last decade.
Source: ARY
News. 11 November 2016
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