KARACHI, April 9: Irate consumers attacked a complaint centre of the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation in Landhi Town on Wednesday night following a prolonged power breakdown in their locality.

Sources told Dawn that the consumers mobbed the complaint centre, damaged a KESC vehicle parked there and a motorcycle of a KESC employee.

“They came in a Suzuki pick-up and damaged KESC property saying that they were doing that in protest against power breakdowns. They also manhandled a KESC engineer present there,” they said.

When contacted, a KESC spokesman said that the consumers had chosen a wrong way to lodge their protest. “By damaging KESC property, they cannot get electricity any time soon. In this way, they only antagonize the KESC staff already working hard to get their job done in an efficient manner.”

He explained that the power breakdown in the locality had been caused by the tripping of a transformer. “Such trippings occur only because of overloading.”