NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Feb 14: Residents of Tharushah took out a procession here on Monday in protest against the collapse of sewerage system and inundation of roads and streets.

Led by Citizens' Action Committee and Youth Welfare Association leaders Iftikhar Charan, Dr Sikandar Sehto and Mumtaz Soomro, the protesters marched from the main chowk to the press club.

They said the taluka municipal officer of Bhirya and the naib nazim of the Tharushah Union Council had given contract of sanitation of wards 1, 2 and 8 to one Ghulam Raza without his knowledge and had not appointed any staff for cleanness of the areas.

Mr Raza told journalists that the contract was awarded in October 2004 and when he came to know about it, he sent an application to the TMO and the taluka nazim for cancelling the same but he received no response.

ARRESTED: The Kandiaro police on Sunday night arrested two alleged bandits, Naseer Ahmad Rind and Shahbaz alias Shazor, and recovered a rifle and a pistol from their possession.