SWABI: Consumers belonging to Yar Hussain and its suburbs staged a protest demonstration against the inflated electricity bills here on Monday.

The protesters gathered at the Yar Hussain Bus Stop and marched through the Chota Lahor-Yar Hussain Road holding placards and banners inscribed with different slogans against the Peshawar Electric Supply Company and the government.

The protesters said they were not in a position to pay the inflated bills, and demanded that Pesco revise them.

Mehmoodul Hassan, former district head of Jamaat-i-Islami, said the government did not care about the financial difficulties of the citizens and was pushing them into mental agony. He said the ‘IMP-dictated’ policies were compounding problems of poverty.

THREE INJURED: A woman and her two children suffered severe burn injuries in a fire caused by a leaking gas heater inside their house in Topi’s main city on Monday, rescue officials said.

The incident occurred in Musakhel Mohallah at 2.30am. Rescuers said the family went to sleep while leaving the gas heater on. Gas leaking from the heater filled the room, triggering the fire.

A rescue official told Dawn that the injured were shifted to Bacha Khan Hospital Complex Shahmansoor in critical condition.

Published in Dawn, December 28th, 2021