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Carol Tue Jul 31, 2012 1:09 pm
NEW DELHI – India's energy crisis cascaded over half the country Tuesday when three of its regional grids collapsed, leaving 620 million people without government-supplied electricity for hours in, by far, the world's biggest blackout. Hundreds of trains stalled across the country and traffic lights went out, causing widespread traffic jams in New Delhi. Electric crematoria stopped operating, some with bodies half burnt, power officials said. Two hundred workers were stranded in three coal mines in West Bengal when the blackout cut off electricity to elevators in their underground pits, a mining company official told The Times of India.
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http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/07/31/half-india-without-power-after-grids-fail-for-second-day/#ixzz22E0s84zv
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