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Animal knocks out power to hundreds of homes in downtown Kitchener

The City of Kitchener flag outside of city hall. Nick Westoll / File / Global News

Over 700 homes in downtown Kitchener were left without power on Wednesday morning.

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The cause of the outage? It was animal contact, according to Kitchener-Wilmot Hydro.

The outage lasted for around two hours and affected 712 homes in an area between Weber Street East and King Street East, just west of Cedar Street North.

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