Blackout hits more than 300 million in India
By Agencies in New Delhi and Hyderabad, India | China Daily | Updated: 2012-07-31 07:55
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Stranded foreign passengers wait for their train at New Delhi railway station in New Delhi, India, on Monday. The electricity grid across northern India failed, leaving hundreds of millions of people without electricity in one of the worst power failures of the past decade. Rajesh Kumar Singh / Associated Press |
Grid failure left more than 300 million people without power in New Delhi and much of northern India for hours on Monday in the worst blackout for more than a decade, while a fire killed at least 32 sleeping passengers on an express train to a southern Indian city.
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