Police investigating dangerous switch to higher voltage

Police in Klatovy, west Bohemia are investigating an incident in which somebody last week broke into an electrical transformer station and briefly increased the voltage in local homes from low to high. Voltage of 15,000 kilowatts caused fridges, television and microwave ovens to explode. A spokesperson for power producer CEZ said that if any local people had touched an appliance at that time they would not have been likely to survive.