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Farooqui visits

blast victims

in hospital

RECORDER REPORT

KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Industries, Labour and Transport Dewan Muhammed Yousuf Farooqui visited Civil Hospital on Monday and inquired about the health of January 17 Aram Bagh bomb blast victims.

The minister distributed gifts to all the injured persons and gave Rs 50,000 to a female patient who had lost her leg and whose daughter had died because of the blast.

Farooqui said that the recent bomb blast was an act of terrorism and aimed at deteriorating the peace which was returning to the province.

He directed the staff of the hospital to provide all possible medical care and treatment to the blast victims.

He appealed to the people to cooperate with the government in arresting to terrorists.