Video: Cat causes Saudi power station blast

A cat sneaked into a power generation station and scratched cables causing a blast, which led to a big fire in a residential area in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, a newspaper in the Gulf Kingdom reported.

'Sabq' said civil defence men were still battling the blaze at the station in the western town of Makkah, adding that power has been cut from most houses.

The paper quoted a civil defence spokesman as saying initial investigation showed that a cat had sneaked into the cable room and caused the blast.

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