A power outage across the capital
of Italy's northern Piedmont province on Thursday morning was
caused by a cable that had been damaged at a work site where
fiber optic lines are being laid, reported the local power
company Iren.
The Turin utility company denied all responsibility.
The incident occurred due to problems with the distribution
plant after a medium-tension cable was damaged during digging as
part of preparations for the laying of the fiber-optic network
in an area between Corso Lecce and Corso Appio Claudio by a firm
that is not linked to Iren, the company said in a statement.
It added that it was thanks to company technicians and
firemen who had been called to the site that the problems lasted
only a short time.
Power in half the city was cut off for a couple of hours.
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