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LARKANA, March 16: A gang of outlaws kidnapped a man from the vicinity of Abad village near Naudero late on Monday night. The bandits signalled a Naudero-bound car in which two men were travelling to stop but the driver sped away. However, he lost control when the outlaws fired after the car which overturned.
Driver Rehmatullah Mangnejo was seriously injured whereas his companion, Aziz Ahmed Mirani, resident of Pirjogoth, was overpowered and kidnapped by the criminals who fled the scene.
Rehmatullah was admitted in the Chandka Medical College Hospital in a precarious condition. The area police have initiated investigations and are said to be tracking the kidnappers.
POWER BREAKDOWN: Almost half of the city remained without electricity for some 20 hours following a fault in the 66kv grid station at 8pm on Monday night that was corrected around 4pm on Tuesday.
On being contacted, Hyderabad Electric Supply Company superintendent engineer Shamsuddin Shaikh told this correspondent that most of the city was provided power only by suspending supply to some villages.
He said some fault developed in the "current transformer" set up at the grid station for maintaining the "desired" power supply to some feeders. Non-availability of such transformers in the local storehouse necessitated calling a special team from Sukkur to replace the defective device with a new one, he added.
He said the Hesco had proposed construction of another grid station on the southern side of the city to distribute the load. Residents of different localities complained about regular unannounced load-shedding but Hesco officials, denying the situation, said power supply might have been disturbed in the affected areas because of some local faults.
KILLED: A shopkeeper of Dokri, Abdul Aziz Kumbhar, was killed in Shatowahan village the other day.
