A rocket hit an electric vector on Friday at dawn leading the wires to fall in Monteverde Valley easte of the Lebanese capital of Beirut.

A rocket hit an electric vector on Friday at dawn leading the wires to fall in Monteverde Valley easte of the Lebanese capital of Beirut, Lebanon Power Institution said in a statement.

“As the technical teams of the institution carried out a field survey in the morning, they concluded that the explosion is due to a metal body that collided the wires, entered their electromagnetic field and damaged the vector,” it added.

“The incident in question damaged the transmission network but it did not affect the power supply all over Lebanon for a companion vector exists,” the statement read.

The National News Agency reported that a missile base was found in the town of Balloneh-Kesserwan and that the electric vector in Kahaleh east of Lebanon was hit by a rocket launched from that base.

A second missile was found set to be launched, yet an emergency breakdown prevented that.

This was not the first time Lebanon witnessed such incidents. Last month two rockets hit the southern suburbs of Beirut, injuring four Syrian workers.