HYDERABAD, July 7: The Power and water crisis continued to torment people of Hyderabad and other districts following Wednesday’s rains preceded by a severe duststorm.

Consumers in 22 districts should brace for further load-shedding and breakdowns because Hesco has been directed to supply 100 megawatts of electricity to KESC for power-starved people of Karachi.

This will certainly aggravate the situation as not a day passes without demonstrations in protest against power breakdowns.

In Hyderabad, the district government has bought generators but these are yet to be made operational, water supply is dependent on power supply.

A man died due to excessive heat after power supply to the Rajputana hospital was cut for hours.

Relatives of the deceased held a protest sit-in on the National Highway outside the hospital on Thursday night.

As a result, the vehicular traffic remained suspended for several hours.

Residents of Latifabad, led by PML women wing leader, Ms Tasneem Zohra, ransacked the Allama Iqbal sub-division Hesco in Latifabad and damaged the office equipment.

The Hesco staff ran away from the office. Hesco authorities sent a letter to the SHO B-section police station for the registration of case against the miscreants.

SUKKUR: Hundreds of people from different localities of the city staged a protest demonstration and a sit-in in front of Hesco offices on Friday after hours of load-shedding.

Residents of Qureshi Goth, Pathan Colony, Kumbhar Paro, Islam Colony, Microwave Colony and Pir Murad Shah Colony marched through the city’s main streets before gathering outside the Hesco sub-division-6 office where they observed a sit-in for two hours.

They said that Hesco was subjecting them to 10 to 12 hours load-shedding in the sizzling hot season.

LARKANA: Frequent power breakdowns combined with low voltage have badly affected Larkana and Qambar-Shahdadkot districts.

Villages in the two districts stood worst sufferers as the power supply to them has drastically been reduced.

In Larkana city, a resident told Dawn that they were getting very low voltage for three days.

Zameer Samoo of the Kerosene depot lane said that people in the Nazar area were passing sleepless nights due to raised frequency of power shutdown.

Residents of the area also took out a procession on Friday in protest against the power outage.

NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: More than 200 people from the Sindh Colony and Photo Bilal union council staged a sit-in in protest against power outage since four days and burnt tyres on the National Highway outside the press club in Moro on Friday bringing traffic to a halt for two hours.

They made several complaints to the executive engineer of Hyderabad Electric Supply Company and SDO but to no avail, they said.

Line Superintendent Abdul Latif Memon said that since they had no transformer available at present they were trying to arrange one from Kotri or some other place.

SANGHAR: The windstorm followed by rain on Wednesday and Thursday wrecked havoc with transmission lines and electric poles leaving in their wake many towns and villages of the district without electricity.