TOBA TEK SINGH: Scores of people from different localities and shopkeepers of cloth markets blocked traf fic for one hour on Monday at Lal Mills Chowk, Faisalabad, to register their protest against Fesco for sending inflated domestic and commercial electricity bills.

The protesters set used tyres on fire and chanted slogans against the federal government for what they said irrational raise in power tariff. Hundreds of women separately staged a sit-in on the road.

Some of the women told the media that on the one hand their husbands and male family members had been rendered jobless due to `wrong` economic policies of the government while on the other exorbitant power and gas bills were sent to them.

Shops located on the protest site also remained closed.

Meanwhile, scores of male and female anti-polio vaccinators staged on Monday a demonstration at District Council Chowk in Faisalabad against`refusal` of primary healthcare department to sign their new job contracts.

They told the media that instead of regularising them new recruitment of polio workers was announced while their outstanding four-month salaries had not been paid.

ROOF COLLAPSE: A man was killed and two other family members suffered injuries when a roof of their house cavedin at Chak 394 GB Jhok Baigwala in Tandlianwala tehsil of Faisalabad on Monday.

The deceased has been identified as Naik Bibi (56) while the injured included her daughter-inlaw Zunaira Bibi (28) and Zunaira`s seven-monthold son Ali Hussain. Both the injured were shifted to Tandlianwala THQ hospital.

In another incident, a cyclist was killed when a van hit him on Monday near Nigahbanpura railway level crossing located on Chak Jhumra Road.

Mansoorabad police have shifted the body of Muhammad Ramzan (40) of Hajweri Town to Allied hospital for autopsy.