An electric fault at 3:40 pm today led to electric outage in the region of Hail, parts of Qasim, some factories in the Industrial City of Jubail and a limited number of neighborhoods in Riyadh, Dammam and Al-Ahsa, the Saudi Electric Company said. The electricity was restored by 8:30 pm to all areas which suffered from the outage, Saudi Electric Company's acting executive president Salih Ala'naizan told Saudi Press Agency. He regretted the outage and said the company will work to avoid reoccurrence in the future.
