KARACHI: Parts of Karachi on Monday witnessed a power outage as soon as the city received its first rain of the monsoon spell, causing problems for the citizens.
The sole power distributor in the city, K-Electric, confirmed the outages and said that electric supply from 500 of its feeders in the city was interrupted after the rainfall.
“Some parts of Baldia, Surjani, Clifton, Defence Housing Authority (DHA) remained affected owing to electricity shutdown,” the power utility’s spokesman said adding that the Gadap area remained most affected during the outage.
The K-Electric spokesperson, however, said that 1400 feeders remained operational during the rainfall adding that Gadap area was the worst affected.
