Families of the 240 victims of Ahmedpur East oil tanker incident received compensation cheques in a ceremony held on Wednesday at Circuit House Bahawalpur with the mutual cooperation of Bahawalpur District Administration and the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra). Bahawalpur Deputy Commissioner Rana Muhammad Saleem Afzal and Ogra Senior Executive Director Imran Ghaznavi distributed cheques of Rs500,000 and Rs1 million among the families of 57 injured and 183 those who lost their lives in the incident, respectively... Ogra senior executive officer said heavy fine has been imposed on the company whose tanker had become a reason for this tragic incident. Ogra Executive Director Sohail Tariq, Ogra Assistant Director Muhammad Hanif, Ogra Assistant Executive Director Muhammad Naseer, SP Investigation Rab Nawaz, Additional Deputy Commissioner Revenue Nausheen Malik and other notables were present on the occasion... Ogra had held a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell responsible for the tanker explosion that killed more than 200 people near Bahawalpur last month. According to a report prepared by the regulatory authority, the tanker carrying gasoline for Shell Pakistan Ltd (SPL) did not meet the set requirements...

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