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Power outage hits 5 states in Brazil

By Stan Lehman
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SAO PAULO (AP) — Fire forced the shutdown of a transformer in a substation, causing a 30-minute-long power outage in five Brazilians states, the country’s Electric Energy System Operator said Thursday.

The government agency said in a statement that Wednesday night’s outage was caused by a fire in one of three transformers in the southern city of Foz de Iguacu.

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