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Bad weather assists electricity cable theft

January 28, 2012 01:45 AM

The Daily Star

BEIRUT: Bad weather has helped provide thieves with the cover needed to make off with electricity cable in southern Lebanon.

The National News Agency said Friday that the village of Addousieh in Zahrani was the latest victim of the theft, which took place at dawn.

Meanwhile, the Central News Agency said that although a number of people have been arrested over the last year for the increasingly popular type of theft, the recent spate of rainy and foggy weather apparently helped thieves in the village of Deir Ames make off with an amount of electricity cable, prompting the town’s mayor to lodge a complaint with the police in the village of Qana.

A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Daily Star on January 28, 2012, on page 3.

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George	January 28, 2012 04:18 AM

Scrap metal dealers that accept electricity cables from thieves should be arrested and prosecuted as if they had stolen the cables.

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