Citywide power outage in Malé disrupts water and telecom services
A city-wide electricity outage in Malé for more than two hours on Sunday afternoon disrupted water and telecommunication services in the capital.
05 Mar 2017, 9:00 AM
A citywide electricity outage in Malé around 1:00pm on Sunday afternoon disrupted water and telecommunication services in the capital.
An official from the State Electricity Company told the press that an earth fault problem with a high-voltage transformer inside the Malé Water and Sewerage Company building caused the power cut. All the generators at STELCO subsequently shut down.
Electricity was restored in some areas of the densely-packed capital after more than two hours. According to MWSC, water services resumed citywide after two hours but pressure might be low until electricity is fully restored.
Nooshin Waheed, a lecturer at the Maldives National University, told the Maldives Independent that she heard a loud bang coming from the MWSC building just before electricity went out.
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