SUKKUR, June 2: The power supply to upper Sindh was suspended on Wednesday evening after a major fault developed in the Guddu thermal power station. Sukkur, Rohri, Shikarpur, Jacobabad, Ghotki, and other parts of upper Sindh remained without electricity.

People faced hardships and several fell unconscious as the temperature in these areas touched 48 degrees Celsius. The executive engineer, Hesco, Sukkur, told this correspondent that a fault in the Guddu power house caused the power disruption. However, he said that he was not able to get information about the nature of the fault.

The power supply was disrupted at 4pm. Officials of the power house said that due to increase in load, breakers went off which stopped power generation. They said that the fault had affected 66kv and 132kv supply systems.

They said that engineers and other staff of the power station were repairing the fault. They said that electricity to Jacobabad, Ghotki, Khairpur and Sukkur would be restored gradually after removal of the fault. Meanwhile, Hesco officials announced that power would be disconnected for one hour to each area after the fault was removed to lessen the load.

KILLED: A driver, Nizamuddin, was killed when bandits opened fire on his pickup on the Lakhi-Larkana road, Amrot Sharif police station jurisdiction, on Wednesday.

The bandits had signalled the driver to stop but when he did not stop, they opened fire on the pickup. The bandits took away cash from the deceased's pocket.

CHECKPOST DESTROYED: The Desert Rangers' checkpost at Punjab-Balochistan border near Kashmore was destroyed and two personnel injured when the unknown outlaws launched rocket attack upon it on Sunday night. The injured Abdul Rahim and Jamil Ahmed were shifted to a hospital.

KILLED: Armed persons killed a man and his daughter in a village near Daharki over a matrimonial dispute on Monday evening. Gul Mohammad and his daughter, Shahnaz, were allegedly killed by Gullan Shaikh, Allah Wasayo and other unidentified persons. The accused had demanded the hand of Shahnaz but on refusal of her father, they attacked the house of Gul Mohammad.