Electricity suppliers in the Chilean capital Santiago scrambled to restore power early Thursday after a blackout left hundreds of thousands of customers without electricity, officials said.
Chile's National Disaster Prevention and Response Service said in a statement that a tree fell on a high-voltage transmission tower belonging to a private company around midnight. statement. Enel Distribución, the country's electricity distributor, comfirmed Power outages also took their toll. The damaged tower is in the southeastern part of the city.
Videos on social media showed much of Santiago plunged into darkness shortly after midnight. Chile's National Disaster Prevention and Response Service said at least 428,000 customers were without power in several parts of the city, or about 6% of the population of the Santiago metropolitan area. Another statement.
Enel Distribución said it was working with the transmission company to restore power.
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