HYDERABAD, Feb 25: A large number of people, especially patients in hospitals, faced severe hardships as the city remained without water supply from the Thandi Sarak water reservoir.

There were unruly scenes as desprate people kept trying to get water from fire tenders. The Thandi Sarak water reservoir supplied filtered water to a large areas in three talukas and cantonment areas.

After transformers of 1200KV were destroyed after fire on Thursday motors at the station were closed. Wasa closed the main supply from the filter plant before operating transformers again.

The areas of Latifabad-4, Pareetabad, Phulelli and Hala Nako were not affected as they were supplied water through other sources. The managing director of Wasa said the normal supply was restored at around 6pm as the transformers of 1000KV and 400KV from Jamshoro were brought in to operate the motors.

He said that water supply started normalizing at 1:30pm. Patients and attendants in the civil hospital and private hospitals suffered a great inconvenience on account of non-availability of water in wards.

Few operations were postponed as the civil hospital. The civil hospital has no sufficient storage capacity in the hospital because it normally gets a poor water supply which makes storage of water more difficult.

PROTEST: Employees of Hesco staged a demonstration in protest against disconnection of electricity for recovery of arrears. They blocked the Hussainabad-Kotri road, suspending normal flow of traffic.

They claimed that Hesco authorities disconnected the power supply to their quarters in order to recover arrears which were to be paid by previous occupants of houses. They said they would pay the current bills and those arrears outstanding against them for consumption of electricity. They ended the protest after Hesco restored power supply.

ROBBERY: Two armed men deprived manager of a coal mine of Rs812,000 in the Fort police area on Friday.