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MACAO - A massive blackout hit parts of Macao on Thursday, leaving thousands of people in the city without power for a while.
The power outage occurred at 11:08 am and almost all facilities in the Zape district,burberry soldes, a reclaimed land on the Macao Peninsula,burberry, was without power,abercrombie and fitch, Macao's power supplier CEM confirmed shortly after the blackout.
Massive blackout rarely happens in Macao and the latest incident of this kind happened in March 2009,beats by dre, leaving about 20,burberry pas cher,000 residents without power for nearly an hour.
CEM said the blackouts were caused by a mechanical failure in a transformer of energy substation in the Zape district. After taking emergency measures,louboutin pas cher, CEM resumed electricity supply in those districts at 11:22 am.
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The reason of mechanical failure of energy substation was still under investigation,abercrombie france, CEM said.
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