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Italy hit by power outage

A large part of Italy has been hit by a power cut in the early hours of Sunday morning.

The country's civil protection agency said it was still not possible to say how much of Italy was affected or why the blackout.

But the national news agency ANSA quoted the national grid authority as saying the outage was caused by a malfunction of incoming electricity lines from abroad.

The blackout put a sharp end to an all-night party in the capital Rome where over shops, tourist sites, and museums were set to stay open until daybreak.

6 posted on 09/27/2003 9:01:02 PM PDT by Brian S (Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem...RWReagan)

"The blackout put a sharp end to an all-night party in the capital Rome..."

Now that is bad news.

Thanks for the update, Brian.

159 posted on 09/28/2003 3:11:56 PM PDT by bd476 (It's easy to be a cynic when a flu bug with building permits starts breaking ground in your sinuses.)