Lahore Train Evacuated During Nationwide Power Outage in Pakistan

Lahore Train Evacuated During Nationwide Power Outage in Pakistan

Passengers have been seen evacuating a metro practice in Lahore on Monday, January 23, as Pakistan skilled widespread energy outages. In a brief assertion, the nation’s Ministry of Energy stated the nation’s nationwide grid went down early on Monday morning, “causing a widespread breakdown in the power system.” Power was out in all of the nation’s main cities, together with the capital Islamabad, in addition to Karachi, Lahore, and Peshawar, in line with ARY News. ARY News reported that the trigger was a fault in a transmission line between Guddu, a city in Pakistan’s Sindh province, and Quetta, a metropolis in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, near the border with Afghanistan. Some energy had been restored to Islamabad and Peshawar, the ministry later stated. In the footage, posted by Ch Nouman Arif, passengers may be seen strolling off the metro practice and onto the tracks close to the Gulshan-e-Ravi station. Credit: Ch Nouman Arif by way of Storyful