CM offers help to blast victims

Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif has announced Rs2 million financial assistance for the heirs of each of the victims who died in a gas tanker explosion in Multan on Monday.

Provincial Health Minister Khawaja Salman Rafiq said on Tuesday that each person injured in the incident would receive Rs500,000.

Talking to reporters at the Pak-Italian Burn Centre along with Health Secretary Azmat Mahmood, the minister said he was visiting Multan on the orders of the chief minister.

The home department formed a committee to investigate the explosion.

South Punjab Additional Chief Secretary Fuad Hashim Rabbani announced a crackdown on illegal oil and gas agencies across the region.