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Electricity failure leaves 70,000 Vladivostok residents without water
VLADIVOSTOK, February 22 (Itar-Tass) -- An electricity failure has
left some 70,000 in several districts of the Russian Far Eastern city of Vladivostok without water supplies, a spokesman for the local water
utility, Primorsky Vodokanal, told Itar-Tass on Tuesday.
According to the spokesman, a water pumping station feeding
Vladivostok's most populated districts with water was cut off electricity supplies after a break of an electricity transmission line overnight to Tuesday.
Repair works are underway. Water supplies are expected to be resumed
within the day.
Police are probing into the accident
left some 70,000 in several districts of the Russian Far Eastern city of Vladivostok without water supplies, a spokesman for the local water
utility, Primorsky Vodokanal, told Itar-Tass on Tuesday.
According to the spokesman, a water pumping station feeding
Vladivostok's most populated districts with water was cut off electricity supplies after a break of an electricity transmission line overnight to Tuesday.
Repair works are underway. Water supplies are expected to be resumed
within the day.
Police are probing into the accident