Cheques distributed among patients injured in oil tanker incident

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Pakistani burn victims are treated at a hospital in Bahawalpur on June 25, 2017, after oil tanker after caught fire following an accident on a highway near the town of Ahmedpur East, some 670 kilometres (416 miles) from Islamabad. At least 123 people were killed and scores injured in an inferno that erupted after an oil tanker overturned in central Pakistan early on June 25 and crowds rushed to collect fuel, an official said. / AFP PHOTO / SS MIRZASS MIRZA/AFP/Getty Images

MULTAN: Compensation cheques were distributed among the injured of Ahmad Pur East oil tanker incident at Nishtar burn unit here on Wednesday.

PML-N MNA Mujahid Ali Shah, MPAs Rana Mahmood-ul-Hassan, Haji Ehsan-ud-Din, Commissioner Bilal Butt, RPO Sultan Azam Taimoori and Deputy Commissioner Nadir Chatha were present on the occasion.

Cheques of one million rupees each were distributed among the injured.

On this occasion, MNA Mujahid Ali said that the tragic incident had saddened the whole nation sad on Eid-ul-Fitr.

Commissioner Bilal Butt directed the district administration to make better arrangements for the attendants of the victims.

Burn unit in-charge, Dr Naheed Chaudhary, while giving a briefing said that over 60 injured victims were shifted to the burn unit here from Bahawalpur. He said that the best medical treatment facilities were being provided to the injured.