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Pul-e-Khumri - 20 February 2016
1. Various of Afghan security forces inspecting collapsed electricity transmission tower and damaged cables
2. Various of workers from Afghanistan electricity directorate reconnecting cables
3. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Ghulam Hussain, engineer:
"The electricity tower has collapsed. We are now just trying to connect the cables, which can be used. The rest of the work needs at least six days (to complete), so we can get our machineries here on these fields, so we can fix this collapsed tower."
4. Various of security forces
5. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Major Abdul Rashid Bashir, Baghlan provincial deputy police chief:
"The area where the power has collapsed is fully covered by our forces, and you can witness the beginning of work by Afghanistan electricity directorate workers on the site to connect the electricity power to Kabul, and we hope that in a couple of hours they will be able to connect electricity to Kabul. We assure the residents of Baghlan that our operation will continue to clear all the safe havens of the enemies in Baghlan province."
6. Collapsed tower
7. Security forces
STORYLINE:
Afghan officials said on Saturday they hope to fully restore electricity to the capital now that security forces have cleared insurgents from an area in the northern Baghlan province where cables from Uzbekistan were damaged during heavy fighting.
It was unclear whether the cables were deliberately sabotaged or accidentally damaged during the fighting.
Engineers have reconnected some cables and the work should be completed within days, according to officials from the Afghanistan electricity directorate.
The severing of the cables late last month has left most of Kabul's 5-million residents with just two hours of electricity a day.
The incident exposed the vulnerability of the capital's energy supply as well as the country's reliance on power from outside its own borders.
Afghanistan also buys electricity from Tajikistan.
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