PM Nawaz announces compensation for Shah Noorani shrine blast victims

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Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Sunday announced compensation of Rs500,000 each for the families of deceased and Rs200,000 each for those injured in terrorist attack at Shah Noorani shrine in Hub.

The prime minister also announced Rs100,000 compensation for the victims with mild or lesser injuries, said a PM House statement.

He instructed Chairman Board of Investment Miftah Ismail and his Spokesman Dr Musaddiq Malik to personally visit Civil Hospital Karachi and deliver the cheques on his behalf.

Survivors of a massive bomb attack on a shrine in southwest Pakistan that killed dozens of people are still suffering the horror after families were ripped apart.

The blast, later confirmed to be the work of a teenage suicide bomber, hit male and female worshippers as they were dancing and chanting at the shrine of the Sufi saint Shah Noorani, some 750 kilometres (460 miles) south of Quetta, the provincial capital of restive Balochistan province.

The attack killed 54 and wounded more than 105 and was the fourth deadliest in Pakistan this year.

Many are still missing with the families being clueless as how to search for them.