伊拉克输电塔被炸

伊拉克电力部在一份声明中说，不明身份的歹徒轰炸了伊拉克北部尼尼微省的一座输电塔。

新华社援引声明称，周日的袭击破坏了连接省会摩苏尔以东地区与摩苏尔大坝的塔，并导致几乎完全停电。

声明补充说，在伊拉克安全部队的陪同下，技术团队已赶赴现场修复塔楼。

“看来，输电塔发生的系列爆炸旨在切断各省之间的国家电网，停止电力部的项目，并耗尽其能力，”

在过去的几天里，萨拉赫丁、基尔库克、尼尼微省以及首都巴格达以北的内拜和塔尔米耶地区多座输电塔遭到轰炸，导致大面积停电。

伊拉克自2003年以美国为首的入侵以来，一直处于电力短缺状态，该国的发电厂总发电量为1.9万兆瓦，远远低于3万多兆瓦的实际需求。

早些时候，总理穆斯塔法·卡迪米召开会议讨论袭击事件，并指示军队加强对输电线路的保护。

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Unidentified miscreants bombed a power transmission tower in Iraq's northern province of Nineveh, the Ministry of Electricity said in a statement.

The attack on Sunday sabotaged the tower that links the areas east of the provincial capital Mosul to Mosul Dam, and led to an almost complete power outage, Xinhua news agency quoted the statement as saying.

Accompanied by the Iraqi security forces, technical teams have rushed to the scene to repair the tower, the statement added.

"It seems that the series of explosions in the transmission towers are aimed at cutting off the national power grid among the provinces, stopping the projects of the Ministry of Electricity, and depleting its capabilities," it said.

During the past few days, several power transmission towers were bombed in the provinces of Salahudin, Kirkuk, and Nineveh, as well as in al-Nebai and Tarmiyah areas north of capital Baghdad, which led to power outages in large areas.

Iraq has been witnessing a chronic power shortage since the US-led invasion in 2003, as the country's power plants generate a total of 19,000 megawatts, far less than the actual demand of over 30,000 megawatts.

Earlier, Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi held meetings to discuss the attacks, and directed the army to strengthen the protection of power transmission lines.