Two injured in Dupont Circle electrical flash

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Two workers were injured Monday, one critically, when one of them cut into a live electrical cable near Dupont Circle.

The electrical contractors were removing cable from an underground high-voltage room when they sliced the 110-volt cable, Pepco spokesman Clay Anderson said. There was no explosion, Anderson said, just a low-voltage flash.

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