BEIRUT: Gunmen shot up an electricity transformer in the eastern district of Zahle early Saturday, causing severe power cuts, one week following two similar attacks carried out in the area.
The official electricity company in Zahle, Electricité de Zahlé, announced in a statement Saturday that one of its transformers was shot and stopped working, cutting the flow of electricity to a large part of the district.
EDZ said that unknown gunmen shot the equipment with five bullets using a military-grade weapon, just 24 hours after the company repaired two other transformers attacked last week.
An EDZ official told The Daily Star Saturday that the company suspects some owners of private generators of being behind the attacks.
Generator owners have been angered with EDZ after it announced a plan to reactive a plant and feed the area with 24 hours of electricity per day, meaning they would no longer need to purchase electricity from third-party suppliers.
Last Saturday, gunmen shot and damaged a transformer on the Zahle-Chtaura road, one day after shooting up another one in Dhour Zahle.
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