EAC lambasted for fire-causing naked power cables

Naked and worn-out electricity cables running through forested areas are a significant cause of fires and that risk, as well as the risk from illegal rubbish dumps, has been predictable for decades, Greens MP Charalambos Theopemptou said on Monday.

The MP’s statement to CyBC comes in the wake of various authorities scrambling to cope with their image control over both the causes and the handling of a series of fires in the last two weeks, including one which blighted the village of Psathi in the Ezousa valley of Paphos on Tuesday...