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TIMERGARA: Angry mob comprising residents of Maidan town in Dir Lower and college students stormed and set on fire a power grid station here on Tuesday and damaged the equipment and office furniture. The staff of the grid station complained the protesters would have taken their lives and destroyed the whole installation had the local residents not come to their rescue, as police disappeared after seeing that the protesters were approaching the grid station.
The residents and college students wanted to express their anger over unannounced power outages in their town. They covered 40-kilometre distance and reached Timergara in several vehicles. Many of them were armed with automatic rifles. Soon after reaching Timergara, the protesters straightway went to the grid station and started destruction there.
According staff of the grid station, the protesters set on fire the electric transformers and other equipment causing loss of millions of rupees. They also smashed glasses of offices and damaged furniture and office record. |