Shot dead: SEPCO employee gunned down

A Sepco employee was murdered near the grid station

SUKKUR:

An employee of Sukkur Electric Power Company (Sepco) was murdered near the grid station, reported  the B-Section police on Wednesday night.

Noor Mohammad Soomro was on his way to the grid station when he was ambushed by unidentified armed men, who opened fire upon him. Soomro was killed on the spot while the assailants fled the scene.

Sepco employees suspended the electricity supply in many parts of the city in reaction to their colleague's murder. However, the power supply was restored an hour later after the intervention of senior officials. B-Section police registered an FIR against three unidentified men.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 10^th, 2014.