Families Of Electrocuted Children Compensated

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TANK: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Member Provincial Assembly (MPA) Usman Khan Bhitani on 03-November-2024 gave cheques worth for Rs1 million each to the families of the four children who were recently electrocuted in Tank district.

The deputy commissioner, Tank, district police officer and the local elders were present at the ceremony. Speaking on the occasion, the MPA said that the cheques were distributed among the families of the victims on behalf of Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur. He said that the chief minister had taken notice of the incident and had directed him to visit the families and distribute the compensation amount.

He said that an FIR had been registered against the Pesco officials following the death of the four children. He said that strict action would be taken against those who were responsible for negligence.

It may be mentioned that four children were electrocuted after suffering an electric shock in Garah Mitho village of Tank district. The children, who were grazing cattle in the fields, had touched the fallen high transmission electricity lines lying on the ground. The cables had been lying on the ground for two days and the locals had informed the Peshawar Electric Supply Company’s office in Tank about it, but to no avail.

Published in News Daily on 04-November-2024.

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