Tens of thousands of homes in Berlin will be without electricity until Thursday as authorities struggle to repair power cables seriously damaged in a suspected arson attack, officials said.
Some may also be without heating as the outage has affected local systems, at a time when the German capital is blanketed in snow and temperatures are hovering around freezing.
Emergency services were alerted early Saturday that several high-voltage cables on a bridge near a power plant had gone up in...
Cable fire cuts power to tens of thousands of Berlin homes and businesses
Published 1 day ago
Source: scmp.com

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