Friday, April 11, 2008
Falling crane causes three-hour blackout (1:45 p.m.)
MANILA - A falling construction crane cut an electricity transmission line and plunged most of Manila into a three-hour blackout Friday, officials said.
The outage in about 70 percent of metropolitan Manila shortly after 9 a.m. halted trains and disrupted traffic, leaving commuters stranded throughout the city.
A spokesman for the state-run National Transmission Co., Arvee Villafuerte, said the power supply was fully restored about three hours later.
Villafuerte told ABS-CBN television the outage was caused by a crane that cut a cable in a Manila suburb, triggering an automatic shutdown at several power plants. (AP) |
