18 July, 2017
Zambian authorities may not be too far from nabbing culprits of recent alleged acts of sabotage after it was discovered baboons are part of the ploy.
Livingstone was plunged in total darkness after a baboon tampered with the transformer at the Zesco Livingstone Power station.
A baboon in Zambia has tampered with the cables at a power station in the south of the country leaving 50,000 people without electricity.
A baboon single-handedly managed to leave a whole town without electricity, after it interfered with machinery at a power station. "You can see that it was electrocuted in so many ways but it has survived", ZESCO spokesperson Henry Kapata told Byta FM.
State broadcaster ZNBC says the blackout affected residents in Livingstone and surrounding areas on Sunday and reports that it was caused by an accident involving "a curious animal". The baboon likely wandered in from a nearby national park, and its curiosity likely led it to the unusual, high voltage machines.
The baboon survived the "massive electric shock" that would have killed a human being, a power company spokesman said.
