Several localities in the south of Malta were without electricity this afternoon after a power station fault.

Power went out at about 3 p.m. in areas which included Zabbar, Zejtun, Fgura and parts of Cottonera. 

Informed sources said the outage was caused by a feeder fault at Delimara power station. Engineers restored service after about an hour.

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