Blast victims to receive compensation

Irangika Range

The Government through the Resettlement and Disaster Relief Services Ministry will grant compensation to families of civilians injured and killed in yesterday’s suicide bomb blast in Sugandirapuram, north of Visuamadu.

On President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s directive, the Ministry decided to grant compensation up to a maximum of Rs. 100,000 in the case of a married person and a maximum of Rs. 50,000 in the case of an unmarried person who died in the blast, Resettlement and Disaster Relief Services Minister Rishad Bathiudeen told the Daily News.

The Minister said that the District Secretary in Vavuniya has been instructed to arrange compensation payments for the victims while necessary money allocations have already been sent to the District Secretariat.

The Ministry has also decided to grant a maximum of Rs. 50,000 to a person injured in the blast based on medical reports.

Meanwhile, it has been decided to pay Rs.50,000 to parents of children who died in the blast. Under the first phase of compensation payments Rs.15,000 will be given for funeral arrangements.