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PETALING JAYA: Nine more suspects have been caught following the arrest of four policemen linked to the theft of telecommunications cable here.

JASIN, Sept 22 — The police arrested three men and a woman suspected to be involved in an attempted cable theft after one of the suspects’ vehicle veered off the road and...

JASIN: A 42-year-old woman is among four individuals detained for stealing copper cables belonging to Telekom Malaysia (TM).

This comes after no less than nine suburbs in Cape Town were left without electricity for much of Tuesday due to vandalism, theft, damage to infrastructure and cable theft.

South Africa's state-owned freight logistics firm on Thursday called on the government to urgently crack down on criminals stealing railway cables -- saying the thefts are disrupting service and severely damaging the economy.

A City Power employee is among three suspects arrested this week for cable theft and vandalism.

An explosion of crime in Buffalo City has residents living in fear as petty crimes, break-ins, robberies, violent crimes, home invasions and now kidnappings are becoming more and more common, even in supposedly safe suburban areas. Red Alert’s Brett Harvey said Beacon Bay, Nahoon, Bonnie Doon and the city centre had all experienced marked increases in break-ins in recent weeks.

Thieves who stole underground copper cables have disrupted phone connections of several homes in Taman Palm Grove, Klang, Selangor. Concrete manhole covers have been removed and placed on road shoulders while remnants of cut cables and plastic fragments litter the road verge along Jalan Setaka and Jalan Terap.

The City of Tshwane completed repairs to the Njala substation after an incident of cable theft left vast swaths of the city without electricity since the early hours of Wednesday morning.