KOHAT, Aug 8 The bomb disposal squad defused a 20-kilogram bomb planted near a hujra here on Saturday.

The home-made bomb was fitted with a timer and planted near the hujra in Suleman Talab village on the outskirts of Kohat city.

The locals informed the Rescue-15 about a suspicious cylinder and the bomb disposal squad rushed to the area, and defused the bomb.

Later it was destroyed at a safe place. The Saddar police registered a case against unknown persons and started investigations, the police media cell said.

POWER BREAKDOWN The fire in the Rawalpindi road grid station, which plunged major parts of Kohat and Darra Adamkhel into darkness, could not be restored after passage of 27 hours on Saturday.

The business community was hit hard by the power breakdown and majority of them kept their shops closed while attendance in offices remained thin. The work of daily wage earners at workshops was badly affected.

However, engineers and technicians were making their full efforts to restore power supply to the affected parts by night, a Pesco official claimed.

XEN Muzaffar Khan told Dawn that electricity supply to the city was restored on Friday night whereas they were trying to replace the cables and repair the damaged system in other parts.

He said that the grid station had been repaired but high power transmission lines damaged due to the fire were being replaced in the city and its outskirts.

On Friday six feeders, cables and other gadgets were damaged at the Kohat Grid Station which was caused by overloading. All the villages on the Rawalpindi road, Hangu road, OTS road, Darra Adamkhel, Alizai and other areas were without power till filing of this report.

IDPS RETURNING Twenty five displaced families residing in Kohat left for their hometowns in Malakand Division on Saturday.

The district welfare committee, formed at the government level, had registered 25 families who had migrated from Malakand after the military operation.

No permanent relief camp had been established in Kohat. The families were kept in schools by the government and some took shelter in the homes of their relatives. The district government, however, provided them food and other relief items on regular basis.