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Just before 8pm last night, the centre of Lausanne was plunged into darkness when it was cut off from the electrical grid. A significant part of the Montchoisi area below Lausanne’s main train station was without electricity for nearly three hours. 200 buildings were affected.
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The outage, which was caused by an exploding transformer at a nearby substation, ended shortly before 11pm. The resulting fire was quickly extinguished by the fire service and the incident had no impact on the functioning of the train station.
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