A large number of households and business were without electricity early this afternoon following a power outage in the Sliema area.

Readers said the whole of Sliema, Ibrag, Gzira, Msida and Ta' Xbiex were affected. Power was lost at about 1 p.m.

A spokesman for Enemalta said the outage was caused by a fault in a transformer in the distribution system. Most areas had power restored by 2.15pm

Exactly a week ago a fault at Marsa power station in the evening  caused a power cut in St Julian’s, Sliema, Sta Venera, Birkirkara and Lija.

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