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Default Power failure in Belgium caused by lightning strike

About 100 000 people in the area around Kortrijk in West Flanders were
without electricity for several hours this afternoon after lightning
struck overhead power cables near Izegem to the north of Kortrijk.

Colin Youngs
Brussels


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