Baghdad, Basra are without electricity

Just hours before the referendum on the constitution, electricity in Baghdad and Basra were exposed to two attacks that resulted in depriving the two cities from electricity.

The spokesman for the ministry of electricity Mahmoud al-Saidi said that a destruction operation targeted the high tension power-lines between Karkouk and Beji, and this resulted in cutting the electricity from Baghdad and its surrounding at an area of 5600 square kilometers.

One engineer in al-Haritha station for electrical power said "the electricity power lines were damaged and this resulted in cutting the electricity grid "from all parts of Basra.