Shafaq News/ The local government in Saladin called on the security authorities to involve the people in protecting electric power towers and maintaining security, ascribing the vandalism attacks in the governorate as a "systematic psychological attack".

Deputy Governor Ismail Ibrahim al-Haloub told Shafaq News Agency, "The terrorists and saboteurs blew up 17 electric power towers between Saladin and other governorates in the past 72 hours only. This requires developing a tight security plan to protect these towers."

Al-Haloub called for "granting the people in effective security role to halt targeting of towers."

"Saladin is subjected to a systematic psychological attack targeting the nerve of life in the governorate to influence the souls of the people for personal purposes," he called for, "deterring the gangs of terrorism and sabotage that target the comfort and stability of the citizen, even though the governorate already suffers from lack of electricity and almost permanent deprivation of electricity."

Energy towers in the hot provinces (Diyala, Kirkuk, and Saladin) are subjected to continuous attacks, often waged by ISIS or gangs seeking illegal financial revenues.