MONTREAL – After over 400,000 were left without power on Monday afternoon, Hydro-Quebec has confirmed that fewer than 70,000 customers are still without power.
“Our teams are gradually restoring service,” it noted on Twitter.
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Louis Olivier Batty, a spokesperson from Hydro-Quebec, told Global News that the cause of the outages was related to a transmission line going down after it was struck by lightning in the Churchill Falls area.
He noted that Hydro-Quebec officials expect full service to resume by early evening.
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