Several hundred people living in Lija have been without power since just before noon today.

Informed sources said the outage was caused by a fault in a substation's transformer. Enemalta employees are working on its replacement, but the sources said the operation normally takes several hours.

It is not known when power will be restored.

A resident said she had been told by Enemalta that power was expected to be restored late in the evening.

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