NAWABSHAH, June 10: Local people and traders of Mohni Bazar and cloth market demonstrated outside the Hesco complaint centre here on Sunday in protest against unannounced load-shedding for over 14 hours amid scorching heat here on Sunday.

They assembled outside the cloth market from where they moved towards the Hesco complaint centre located at Mohni Bazar.

Raising slogans against Hesco for unannounced load-shedding, the enraged protesters burnt tyres on the road and staged a sit-in.

They said that there was no electricity in their area for the last 14 hours.

They said that their business was almost closed and they were incurring huge losses due to the shut down.

Due to load-shedding “we are also facing water shortage”, an enraged protester said.

They said that Hesco authorities were sleeping and no responsible officer was ready to listen to their complaint.

The local complaint officials said there was a fault in transformer and power could be restored only after the technical team replaced it.

However, electricity could not be restored till the filing of this report.

Our Khairpur correspondent adds: Heatwave coupled with power outage continued in the district on Sunday due to which people faced hardships.

More than 30 localities of Khairpur city remained without electricity from 10am to 12 noon due to which traders, citizens and patients in hospitals faced hardships.