TOBA TEK SINGH: Scores of residents of Pirmahal`s Umer Farooq Colony ransacked on Thursday the Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (Fesco) complaint office for not restoring electricity supply to the locality, suspended since last Monday.

They also blocked Railway Station Road. They dispersed when Fesco official assured them of restoring power supply.

Councillor Kashif Jan Mayo, who led the demonstration, told reporters they had repeatedly contacted the complaint office after the area transformer had died three days ago.

The employees, however, demanded Rs200,000 expenditures for the replacement of the burnt transformer. By the evening, power supply to the locality had been restored.

DIES: A class nine student died of asphyxiation due to gas leakagein his house at Gojra on Thursday.

Police said when deceased Salman returned home in Siraj Town from school, his father Khalid was at work while his mother had gone to neighbors.

When his mother returned home, she found Salman unconscious in the kitchen, which was filled with gas leaked from the pipeline.

He was shifted to the Gojra Tehsil Headquarters (THQ) hospital where he died.

ACCIDENT: A motorcyclist died in an accident at Gojra on Thursday.

Police said Ihtisham (24) was riding a motorcycle when he stopped by the road, where two motorcyclists had collided each other. In the meantime, another motorcyclist hit him, leaving him in the pool of blood.

He was shifted to the Gojra THQ hospital to be referred to the Faisalabad Allied hospital where he died.

MARKET: The Fruit andVegetable Commission Agents Association office-bearers have alleged that the contractor is using substandard material in the construction of new market for them on Chichawatni Road.

Speaking at a press conference on Thursday, association president Muhammad Siddig, vice president Iftikhar Kassana and other officebearers said they had deposited millions of rupees to the market committee for the construction of new market but the contractor was using defective material.

They said they would be forced to set up a protest camp on the new market site.

Meanwhile, Additional Deputy Commissioner (revenue) Ahmad Khawar Shahzad visited the site along with the association officebearers and the market committee secretary, Ms Nazia Fareed. Mr Shahzad directed the engineers to examine the construction material.