Emeute de l’électricité meurtrière à Attock ٹک (Agra) – août 2010

One killed in protest against load shedding in Attock

Daily Times Monitor

19 08 2010

LAHORE: One person was killed as residents of Kamra and its surroundings in Attock turned violent and staged a protest against unannounced load shedding, a private TV channel reported on Wednesday.

During the protest, demonstrators entered the Air Force checkpost at Kutba Chowk. They damaged property and torched the furniture of a WAPDA office in Hutyan. The mob suspended traffic on GT Road causing traffic disruption between Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Traffic on the motorway also remained suspended due to the chaos. In Kamra, the protesters also damaged a police checkpost and pelted stones on police vehicles. One civilian was killed as police fired tear gas shells, and fired shots in the air and baton-charged to disperse the protesters, the channel said.

Clashes between police, protestors claim two lives in Pakistan

peopledaily.com.cn

August 19, 2010

Two people were killed in clashes between police and angry people who were protesting against power outage in eastern Pakistan’s Punjab province on Wednesday, a police officer said.

The protest blocked motorway and the grand trunk road between the capital Islamabad and the northwestern city of Peshawar.

Hundreds of angry people clashed with the police when the demonstrators tried to torch officer of the power supply company at the city of Attock.

The police fired into the air to disperse the demonstrators and the people also threw stones at the police.

Police confirmed that two people died during the protest. Hundreds of vehicles stranded on two roads as traffic blocked for hours.

In some parts of the country, the infrastructure has been ravaged and the power and water supply have been hindered by the worst floods, which so far have killed 1,540 people and left 20 million people homeless.

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Attock (Urdu: اٹک ) est une ville pakistanaise du Penjab. La ville se trouve dans le corridor formé par la rivière Kaboul et les rives de l’Indus et donne son nom au district qui l’inclut. L’aire urbaine de la ville est peuplée d’environ 1 000 000 d’habitants (estimation 2006), la ville se situe à 80 km de Rawalpindi et 100 km de Peshawar.