SUKKUR, July 23: The Kashmore grid station was reduced to ashes by a fire on Tuesday night, plunging the town and its adjoining areas into darkness.

The incident is said to be the first in decades in which a grid station has burnt completely. Officials told Dawn that installation of the new machinery would take at least three days.

It all began at around 10.25pm when a cable of the grid station caught fire and burnt. The experts of the grid stations organization (GSO) rushed to the scene and replaced the damaged cable with a new one.

When the engineer switched on, the entire gird station was engulfed in flames with a big bang. The fire was so severe that it completely destroyed machinery and equipments. Luckily no casualty or injury took place.

SNF: The activists of the Sindh National Front (SNF) held a protest demonstration in Sukkur on Wednesday against the construction of the greater Thal canal.They held a sit-in at Clock Tower for about an hour.

MPA Amir Bux Bhutto, Gul Mohammad Jakhrani, Ayub Shar and others, while addressing the protesters, said that the people of Sindh were opposed to the construction of the greater Thal canal.

They said that the establishment has perpetuated injustices upon Sindh.