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Saturday, 11 December, 1999, 10:23 GMT
Jellyfish blamed for Philippines blackout The authorities in the Philippines have blamed jellyfish for a massive power failure that plunged much of the main island of Luzon into darkness on Friday night. The power cut brought traffic to a standstill around the capital, and prompted rumours of either a coup or an early outbreak of the millennium bug. The authorities said that in fact, large numbers of jellyfish had been sucked into the seawater intake of a major power plant near Manila, clogging up the mechanism. They said about fifty truckloads of jellyfish had been removed. From the newsroom of the BBC World Service |
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