Hundreds storm Sibi power station over long outages

Hundreds of people in Sibi stormed a power station in protest against cuts lasting up to 20 hours a day, police said Friday.

The protesters also ransacked the station’s neighbouring administrative office in Thursday night’s incident in rural Sibi, where temperatures peaked at 45 degrees Celsius.

“People stormed the electricity supply office and ransacked it last night and a case has been lodged against them,” police official Anayatullah Bungulzai told AFP, adding that the group numbered up to 800 people.

Planned power cuts, also known as loadshedding, happen frequently in Pakistan due to fuel shortages.