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Gavin Blackburn

Power restored to thousands of Berlin homes after attack on lines caused outage

Power was being restored to thousands of households in Berlin on Wednesday that had been without electricity in freezing temperatures for four days following a suspected far-left attack on high-voltage lines, authorities said.

About 45,000 households and 2,200 businesses lost their supply on Saturday morning after a fire on a bridge that carries high-voltage cables over the Teltow Canal, in the southwest of the German capital, affecting an estimated 100,000 people.

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