SUKKUR, Aug 15: Two labourers were electrocuted while working on 11KV high tension power cables of a water supply scheme in Ramzanpur village near Jacobabad.

Zulfiqar Ali, 38, and his nephew, Yousuf, 23, residents of Khanewal (Punjab) were hired by the contractor of the water supply scheme to rectify the faulty cables which supplied electricity to the water scheme.

They were told that it was safe to work on the cables as power supply to them had been suspended.

They climbed on a pylon and were busy in the work when supply was restored.

As a result, they received electric shock, fell from the pylon into the water reservoir and died.

Police took the bodies to Civil Hospital Jacobabad and, after post-mortem, handed them over to relatives.

Ghulam Abbas, uncle of Yousuf, told the media that manager Waseem Ahmed of the contractor had asked Sukkur Electric Power Company officials at a local grid station to suspend power supply to the area.

After some time, he was told that power supply had been suspended.

However, he said, the supply was restored without informing them in advance.

An FIR has been lodged by sub-inspector Aijaz Farooqui on behalf of the state at Mauladad police station against line superintendent Sajjad Ahmed and contractor Chaudhry Shahzad Akram.

They have been accused of negligence leading to the death of the labourers.

The bodies of the labourers were sent to their native town in an ambulance.