LAHORE: Angry residents of Lahore's Railway Power House Baja Line vicinity started a fire on Mughalpura Road to protest against prolonged electricity load shedding on Monday.

The protesters said they were tired and exhausted of the power outage since the past five days.

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Numerous complaints were lodged against a faulty transformer with the area's SDO but to no avail, the protestors said.

The protest badly affected the flow of traffic on Mughalpura Road. 

Continuing on the trend K-Electric set on the first day of Ramazan, Karachi was plunged into darkness as power outages occurred in various areas on the second Sehri late Sunday night.

Golimar, North Karachi, New Karachi, and surrounding areas experienced an electric breakdown on Sunday night once again, exacerbating public outrage after power breakdowns during Sehri and Iftar times on the first day of fasting.