This article was originally published on Malawi24 ">Malawi24 , Malawi's #1 independent news platform. Residents and estate guards in Thyolo have thwarted an attempted theft of an ESCOM transformer, preventing a crime that could have left households and businesses without electricity. The Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) says the incident happened during the night of June 21-22 at EPM Estate, where suspected vandals pulled down and dismantled a […] Read the full article and more Malawi news at Communities stop transformer theft in Thyolo ">Malawi24 — Breaking news, politics, business, sport and entertainment from Malawi and Africa, updated 24/7.