KARACHI: Compensation for victims of boat incident
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Nov 8: Adequate compensation will be paid to the affected fishermen families who had been hit by the tragic boat incident near a Ketti Bundar settlement in the Arabian Sea on Friday night.
This was announced here by the Fishermen Cooperative Society (FCS) after a visit of an FCS delegation to the village where officials met the aggrieved families to condole the deaths.
The delegation headed by senior director and FCS managing committee member Haji Shafi Mohammad Jamote who assured the affected families that the society would render all possible financial assistance.
A boat carrying 35 people including women and children drowned in the Moosa Creek near a coastal village of Ketti Bundar due to overloading.
It is learnt that all the 35 bodies of the victims were fished out.
