An Act of Sabotage Stops an Important Power Transmission Line in Nineveh

Baghdad-INA
 
The General Company for Northern Electricity Transmission announced on Sunday, that a power transmission line in Nineveh has been stopped due to a sabotage act.
 
A statement by the General Company, received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), stated that the line east of Mosul - Mosul Dam with a voltage of 400 kV was stopped due to an act of sabotage, by detonating the tower numbered (23) type (XYB) with IED; which led to its fall and a cut in the wires in Salamiyah area near the village of Al-Kasr, Nineveh province, noting that this incident caused a weakness in the supply of electric power throughout the Nineveh province.
 
The statement added that the engineering and technical cadres in the maintenance dept. of Nineveh electrical networks, in cooperation with the Iraqi army and the electricity police, headed towards the location of the incident, as the work on reconstructing the fallen tower has been started, to repair the damage in order to return it to service as soon as possible.
 
It is to be mentioned, that the northern electric power transmission system has been subjected to a large number of sabotage acts and during the past few days, which led to the stop of several power transmission lines and the fall of 16 power transmission towers in the provinces of Nineveh and Kirkuk.