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| Millions of people across 11 provinces in Afghanistan face blackouts after two power transmission towers were blown up |
| 2022-05-01 |
Millions of people across 11 provinces in Afghanistan faced blackouts on Saturday after two power transmission towers were blown up just west of the capital Kabul, authorities said. The outages come ahead of the Eid al-Fitr holiday that marks the end of the Moslem holy month of Ramadan. Two pylons in the province of Parwan were bombed late on Friday, cutting off electricity to the capital and neighboring provinces. "The enemies... have blown up two electricity pylons with bombs," Hekmatullah Maiwandi, a front man for the state-run DABS electricity company, said in a video statement. Five teams from the firm have been deployed to carry out repairs, he added. "The pylons are installed on top of mountains and our teams are trying to fix them," Maiwandi said. Temporary repairs would be performed to partially restore power by Saturday night before a full restoration of the towers can be completed in two weeks, he added. Police said two suspects have been arrested over the earth-shattering kabooms. Many residential buildings and businesses in Kabul, a city of about five million people, booted up private generators Saturday to ensure electricity supply ahead of Eid celebrations. Afghanistan is largely reliant on electricity imported from northern neighbors Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, making cross-country power lines a prime target for turbans. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #13 "When you're bouncing along on Afghanistan's plains And you feel an unease as your battery drains, Fear not! Just pull over, plug into the mains... And say hi to the bones of my soldier." |
| Posted by: Glorong Dribble4666 2022-05-01 22:47 |
| #12 Running water? Toilet paper first |
| Posted by: Frank G 2022-05-01 22:05 |
| #11 Always blowing up the infrastructure. That's why ya'll can't have nice things like civilization. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2022-05-01 21:41 |
| #10 I'm sure their Allen will save them |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2022-05-01 21:35 |
| #9 What ever happened to Gobar gas/biogas as a solution for isolated Afghan villages? Did enough ever get built to make a difference anywhere in the country? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2022-05-01 12:18 |
| #8 "When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, And the women come out to cut up what remains. Just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains. And go to your g-d like a soldier." |
| Posted by: irish rage boy 2022-05-01 10:56 |
| #7 I'm sure everyone who is in good with the Taliban has access to portable generators and so on. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-05-01 08:23 |
| #6 "Mo didn't have electricity, and now neither do you" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2022-05-01 08:20 |
| #5 more like 1000 to 1500 years ago The first major city in what is now Afghanistan to be conquered by moslems was Herut in about 650. Kabul wasn't conquered until about 950. |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2022-05-01 08:10 |
| #4 I expect as many won't even know the power is out. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-05-01 08:08 |
| #3 ^...in the States, it's sometimes referred to as the "Chicago Model"-gangs, corrupt government. decivilization.... |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-05-01 06:51 |
| #2 /\ Chumming the waters for economic sponsorship. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-05-01 06:46 |
| #1 An just like as has been seen in Afghanistan for the last 1600+ years, Muslims are back to killing each other. Until the next foreign power thinks it can bring Afghanistan in the modern civilization times. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2022-05-01 05:50 |