
All of the north’s electricity went out on Friday morning after an explosion at a substation caused the grid to completely collapse.
The explosion occurred at around 5am at a substation near the village of Nikitas, around a mile southwest of Morphou, with Kib-Tek, the north’s electricity authority, saying that it had occurred inside the substation’s central circuit breakers and caused “serious damage” to the substation’s transformer.
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