Marsa cable fault causes power-cut across several towns

At approximately 3pm a fault on a 33KV cable that runs between Marsa Power Station and St. Venera caused a loss of electricity supply to a number of localities in Malta.

Following immediate intervention by Enemalta technicians and engineers, power started to be restored to some localities at 3:31pm and by 4:30pm power was restored to every locality.

Television and radio stations went off air for some minutes while power in homes, offices and factories went off in various localities across the country.

The outage has so far not been explained by energy provider Enemalta, but some localities reported a surge, an outage and immediate return of supply.