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20 March 2004
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Saturday
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28 Muharram 1425
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Major power breakdown hits Karachi
By Staff Reporter
KARACHI, March 19: A major power breakdown hit the city when at least two grids of the KESC went dead on Friday night.
KESC's chief engineer, Jamil Gul, told Dawn that a fault had occurred in the Jacob Line grid and the Garden grid. He added that 35 feeders had tripped because of the fault.
"The KESC has backfed 25 feeders and the remaining feeders are also being normalized," Mr Gul said at around 12:30am. He said over 93,000 consumers lost their power supply when a ground excavator of the FWO damaged the 132-KV extra high tension power supply cable linking two grid stations two weeks ago.
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