According to media reports, a key installation near the Jänschwalde coal plant in Brandenburg was repeatedly targeted with rockets, which emergency crews later found and defused.
Several improvised explosive devices were found at a substation near a coal-fired power plant in Germany on Tuesday and several power lines were damaged, police and a grid operator said.
Operator 50Hertz said there was a “brief interruption of service” but all lines are now back in operation at the Preilack substation, which distributes power from the nearby Jänschwalde power plant.
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Source: EuroNews
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