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Argentina, Uruguay suffer massive power blackout
« on: June 16, 2019, 02:10:07 pm »
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Argentina, Uruguay suffer massive power blackout | DW | 16.06.2019
Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com)

A massive power grid failure has left all of Argentina and parts of Uruguay without electricity. The outage has affected around 50 million people across the two countries as authorities attempt to quickly restore power.

A problem in the energy network has left two South American states cut off from power at 7:06 a.m. local time (10:06 UTC)

Energy distribution company Edesur, a major provider to the two nations, confirmed the outage in a tweet.

Read more at: https://www.dw.com/en/argentina-uruguay-suffer-massive-power-blackout/a-49225070

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News flash
‏ @BRNewsFlash

#BREAKING UPDATE:

SOUTH AMERICA #BLACKOUT:
🇦🇷 Entire #Argentina
🇺🇾 Entire #Uruguay
🇧🇷 Southern #Brazil
🇨🇱 Southern #Chile
🇵🇾 Parts Of #Paraguay
Cause for the incident is still unclear.
Some reports of a massive cyber attack.
5:10 AM - 16 Jun 2019


https://twitter.com/BRNewsFlash/status/1140230094511910912