Vandals fire at and destroy electrical transformer in Irbid

Jordan

Published: 2017-10-28 16:28

Last Updated: 2024-03-28 04:49


A transformer, not unlike the one destroyed in Irbid.
A transformer, not unlike the one destroyed in Irbid.

The Jordanian Electric Power Company (JEPCO) said on Saturday that one if its transformers in the town of Shuna Shamaliya, Irbid, was shot at and damaged this morning.

The Head of the Jordan Valley Electricity, Sa’id Obaidat, said that once the transformer was destroyed, 350 households lost power.

Obaidat added that the company reported the incident to the police, and that this wasn’t the first time such an incident occurred; there had been multiple instances of people firing at transformers in the area before, depleting the company’s supply of tranformers.