Karachi faces another power breakdown within 24 hours

KARACHI: Citizens in most parts of the city had to spend yet another sleepless Friday night without power twisting and turning in their beds as the city suffered second major breakdown within 24 hours.

Earlier, the metropolis city plunged into darkness after multiple grid stations of the K-Electric (KE) going offline and the same was restored yesterday evening after 12 hours of long breakdown.

Much to the misfortune of the people yet another major breakdown occurred after a light rain just after Iftar on Friday night throwing the city in pitch darkness and forcing the people to arrange their Sehri in candle light notwithstanding the suffocating hot and humid weather.

The widespread outage affected Saddar, Clifton, Garden, I.I. Chundrigar Road, Burns Road, Jamshed Town, Jacob Lines, New Town, Railway Colony, Defence, Clifton, Qayyumabad, Sultanabad, Cantt., Kemari, Landhi, Korangi, Malir, Quaidabad, Gulistan-e-Jauhar, North Karachi, Gulshan-e-Iqbal and several other areas in the city.