HOURS-BLACKOUTS IN CAPITAL AFTER MARIB TRIBESMEN ATTACK POWER LINES

MARIB, May 11 (Saba) - Destructive tribesmen have attacked power
transmission lines in Marib province in northeast Yen mepromoting
blackouts for more than three hours a day in the capital.

An official source at the Public Electricity Corporation said that
power blackouts will take place for some hours a day after the
attack that completely stopped the operations of the Marib Gas-Fired
Power Station. An engineering team is now fixing the matter, the
source said.

On Monday power cuts happened for more than 3 hours in the capital,
Sana'a, many times during the day.

Shooting power transmission lines was a heinous crime and already
separated the station totally from the national power grid leading
to power deficiency, the source added.

The first stage of Mareb Gas-Fired Power Station was launched at a
capacity of 260 megawatts last year helping largely to resolving
electrical problems in the country.

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