LARKANA, Dec 18: Power supply to trade centres of the city remained suspended on Saturday after some thieves stole the conductor of a supply line of 11,000 watts near the commerce college.

The City-III feeder of the Empire sub-division which supplies electricity to Reshamgali, Jiles Bazaar, Gajanpur, Ali Gohar Abad, Empire Road, Surhiya Padhar and Murdwahan was closed at 10am for repair work.

Sources in Hesco told this correspondent that the thieves on late Friday night had cut the conductor of two poles. However, power supply was immediately restored from an alternative source.

The company on Saturday started restoration work at 10am and closed the City-III feeder. The power supply from the feeder was restored at around 5:20pm.

Meanwhile, the line superintendent of the sub-division, Rasool Bakhsh Shahani, lodged an FIR against the unidentified thieves at the Mahota police station.

KILLED: A motorcyclist, Dilnawaz Supro, who was shot at and injured by four robbers near the Naugoth village on Saturday died at the Chandka Medical College Hospital.

Police have registered a case.

Meanwhile, a labourer, Mehar Ali Khokhar, was killed after he fell from a tractor-trolley which hit a car near the Tasirra village, Badah town, on Saturday.

The Badah police have registered a case.

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