Police investigates power cable incident at STELCO substation

The Maldives Police Service has initiated an inquiry following the severing of a power cable at a substation of State Electric Company Limited (STELCO) situated near the clock tower in Male’.

The authorities were informed of the incident by the Police at around 21:46pm on Thursday night.

During the investigation, police have stated that no arrests have been made related to the incident at this time.

The occurrence comes after numerous earlier reports of theft and vandalism involving power cables and transformers in the Male’ region and surrounding atolls.