Hunt begins for the cause of huge South American blackout
By LUIS ANDRES HENAO and PAUL BYRNE
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The lights were back on Monday across Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay after a huge blackout that affected tens of millions people, but authorities remained in the dark about the cause of the grid collapse and continued to calculate the economic damage.
Argentine President Mauricio Macri promised a thorough investigation into what he called an “unprecedented†outage, one that raised questions about flaws in South America’s power grid, which connects many of the region’s largest countries.
Energy officials said the results of the investigation would be available in 10 to 15 days, and they could not immediately provide details on the economic impact of the outage, which happened on a Sunday, a day before a national holiday in Argentina.
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Probably hacked, hopefully, no deaths happened in hospitals, etc. because of this.
