July 07, 2008	Monday	Rajab 3, 1429

HYDERABAD, July 6: Twenty buffaloes were electrocuted when a live electricity wire fell in the Phulelli canal near Barrage Colony in Tando Mohammad Khan on Sunday. However, no loss of human life was reported.

After the incident, the Hesco authorities removed the wire from the canal.

The owners of the buffaloes, Naseem Halepoto, Naveed, Ghulam Farooq Bhatti, Aijaz Halepoto and others held a protest at the grid station chowk, causing suspension of vehicular traffic for an hour.

They said that they had suffered losses of millions of rupees and demanded that Hesco should pay for the losses.

RALLY: A large number activists of People’s Labour Bureau took out a rally here on Sunday to celebrate the appointment of Chaudhry Manzoor Ahmed, a former MNA and member of the central executive committee of PPP, as central secretary general of the People’s Labour Bureau Pakistan.