A power transmission line in Iraq's Nineveh has been stopped due to a sabotage act, INA reported Monday.

A statement by the General Company for Northern Electricity Transmission stated that the line east of Mosul - Mosul Dam with a voltage of 400 kV was stopped due to an act of sabotage, by detonating the tower numbered (23) type (XYB) with IED; which led to its fall and a cut in the wires in Salamiyah area near the village of Al-Kasr, Nineveh province.

The incident caused weakness in the supply of electric power throughout the Nineveh province.

The northern electric power transmission system has been subjected to a large number of sabotage acts during the past few days, which led to the stop of several power transmission lines and the fall of 16 power transmission towers in the provinces of Nineveh and Kirkuk.