I don't like it when the electricity goes out here once in a while and candles have to be lit. Hopefully the people in Syria will get their electricity turned on pretty soon.
Syria Suffers Nationwide Power Blackout
FILE - A group of men walk down a street without electricity late in the besieged rebel bastion of Douma, northeast of the Syrian capital Damascus on Nov. 10, 2014.
Sirwan Kajjo
March 03, 2016 11:27 AM
For the first time since the eruption of civil war in 2011, a nationwide electricity blackout hit Syria in the early hours Thursday.
The country’s official news agency, SANA, reported that the cause of the shutdown is not known and that workers are trying to restore power region-by-region.
Government experts said they expect to the power to be resorted in the next 12 hours in the entire country.
Power outage, shortage
“This is a just technical issue that happens in many countries,” an employee at the Ministry of Electricity told VOA via phone. She refused to give further details.
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Syria Suffers Nationwide Power Blackout
Syria Suffers Nationwide Power Blackout
FILE - A group of men walk down a street without electricity late in the besieged rebel bastion of Douma, northeast of the Syrian capital Damascus on Nov. 10, 2014.
Sirwan Kajjo
March 03, 2016 11:27 AM
For the first time since the eruption of civil war in 2011, a nationwide electricity blackout hit Syria in the early hours Thursday.
The country’s official news agency, SANA, reported that the cause of the shutdown is not known and that workers are trying to restore power region-by-region.
Government experts said they expect to the power to be resorted in the next 12 hours in the entire country.
Power outage, shortage
“This is a just technical issue that happens in many countries,” an employee at the Ministry of Electricity told VOA via phone. She refused to give further details.
Continue reading at:
Syria Suffers Nationwide Power Blackout
