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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

Power restored in Puerto Rico nearly 5 days after blackout

Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

A private company announced Monday that power had been fully restored to Puerto Rico’s almost 1.5 million customers nearly five days after a fire at a main power plant sparked an island-wide blackout and prompted public schools and government agencies to close.

Officials are now focused on investigating what exactly caused the failure of a circuit breaker at a substation within the Costa Sur power plant in southern Puerto Rico, one of four main plants in the U.S. territory.

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