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Families of

drowned fishermen

given cheques

KARACHI: The families of the two fishermen who died while crabbing a few days ago were given compensation cheques of rupees 10,000 each by the Vice-Chairman of Fishermen Cooperative Society (FCS) Haji Shafi Muhammed Jamote here Thursday.

The Sindh Minister for Public Health Engineering, Lal Baksh Bhutto who is also the FCS Chairman had directed for the payment of compensation to the bereaved families.

Speaking on the occasion Haji Shafi Jammote lauded the efforts made by Maritime Security Agency to help recover the bodies of the drowned fishermen.-APP