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Severe storms cut power supply to 540,000 homes in US midwest

electrical crews work by power lines with a tree knocked down beside them
Crews work among trees and power lines downed by severe storms on Tuesday, to restore power in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Wednesday. Photograph: Carolyn Kaster/AP

Power supply was cut on Thursday ⁠to about 540,000 homes and businesses across the US midwest as severe storms battered the region, data ⁠from PowerOutage.us showed.

Indiana ⁠was the ​hardest-hit state, with more than 267,000 outages, representing about 8% of its roughly 3.3 million customers, the data ⁠showed.

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