Armed anti-government groups have sabotaged a power line in Baghlan province, officials said today, cutting a supply of imported electricity to Kabul last night.
Wahidullah Tawhidi, a spokesman for the national power company, Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat, said insurgents destroyed one electricity transmission tower in the area of Kelagai Dashte.
He added that utility workers have reached the area not long afterward and have started repairing of the lines.
He predicted that service would be restored temporarily by the end of today.
Afghanistan suffers from a chronic power shortage, with less than 40 percent of the population even connected to the grid, according to World Bank data. Three-quarters of the country’s electricity is imported from the neighbouring countries of Uzbekistan, Iran, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.
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