JAMMU: The Police opened fire on a crowd of demonstrating students here today [Oct 17 J, and first reports said three people were killed. The reports said one of the 29 people injured, died after being taken to the hospital.

Trouble broke out when the Police cordoned off a procession of students from a Science College here who were demonstrating in sympathy with their colleagues, on a hunger strike, at a nearby Agricultural College.

Students in the procession are said to have started stoning the Police who retaliated with a volley of shots.

Reports said the students were also demonstrating in defiance of a ban on public processions.

It was not immediately known if the demonstrations here were connected with a wave of student unrest which has swept through 100 towns in North and Central India and puzzled the Indian authorities. Agencies [Meanwhile, as reported by our Staff Correspondent,] the recurring power breakdowns and complaints of low voltage in the City were claimed to be the cause of unauthorised excessive use of electricity by the domestic consumers.

The unnoticed load, according to a spokesman of the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation, passed on to mains and finally to sub-stations resulting in breakdown. Low-voltage was also caused for the same reason.

According to a test survey conducted by the KESC, unauthorised power plugs were being added indiscriminately in houses built on 1,000 square yards and above in PECHS and North Nazimabad.

These bungalows were granted connections to supply up to 5KW of electricity. Actual consumption, however, was about 25KW.

Power consumption was particularly heavy in PECHS houses tenanted by foreigners who had air-conditioners and otherelectricalappliances.