MIRPURKHAS, July 24 Hundreds of people took to the streets late on Thursday night and held a demonstration at Hirabad chowk before ransacking a complaint centre of the Hesco in protest against power breakdown for past three days.

The protesters blocked roads by putting up hurdles and burning tyres before ransacking and setting on fire the complaint office of the Hesco Hirabad subdivision.

The protesters told journalists that transformer of their area had developed some faults three days ago but Hesco officials did not bother to get it repaired and restore power supply to their areas.

Meanwhile, hundreds of residents of Noor Shah Colony and Khaar Para also held a demonstration at Pir Ghulam Rasool Shah Jilani road in protest against long spells of loadshedding.

They burnt old tyres and stopped traffic by creating hurdles. They complained that the transformer of their areas had gone out of order but the Hesco officials did not come to repair it.

The protesters dispersed peacefully over assurances by the police that power would be restored to their area.

BREACH The Sarhal Shakh developed a 40-foot wide breach at watercourse No 8 near Khipro town on Friday during rainfall, flooding standing crops on 500 acres and three big villages with over 300 houses.

Reports said that hundreds of villagers, including women and children left their houses and took shelter on the banks of the canal along with their cattle.

Standing crops of cotton and chilli over 500 acres of land were inundated.

Later, irrigation officials closed water supply into the Sarhal Shakh to save other villages and crops and plugged the breach with the help of villagers.