An ex­plo­sion at one of T&TEC's sub-sta­tions in Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day af­ter­noon left three em­ploy­ees in­jured and ma­jor parts of the city with­out elec­tric­i­ty. Ac­cord­ing to a re­lease from the com­pa­ny the ex­plo­sion oc­curred around 2.50 pm at T&TEC's 6600-volt sub-sta­tion, Fla­ment Street, Port-of-Spain. The three em­ploy­ees–Ger­ard Sim­mons, Clyde Khan and Kendall Ram­sa­roop–re­ceived mi­nor in­juries and were rushed to hos­pi­tal where they were list­ed in a sta­ble con­di­tion, T&TEC said.

The ex­plo­sion knocked out pow­er in sev­er­al ar­eas, in­clud­ing In­de­pen­dence Square, Fred­er­ick Street, Hen­ry Street, Pem­broke Street, Aber­crom­by Street, Low­er Hen­ry Street, Prince Street, Duke Street and parts of Dun­don­ald Street. The re­lease said about 20 per cent of the af­fect­ed area had their pow­er re­stored with­in 45 min­utes of the ex­plo­sion. In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing to de­ter­mine the cause of the ex­plo­sion, the com­pa­ny said. Up to 5 pm yes­ter­day a T&TEC crew was still work­ing to re­store pow­er to the af­fect­ed ar­eas.