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Power outage hits Venezuela towns, capital Caracas

Tue Apr 29, 2008 5:07pm EDT

CARACAS, April 29 (Reuters) - A power outage hit towns in major oil exporter Venezuela on Tuesday including large parts of capital city Caracas, witnesses said.

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The cause of the energy failure was not immediately clear and Caracas power company Electricidad de Caracas said it could not comment.

Mobile telephone services collapsed in the outage but initial reports did not suggest oil refineries were affected. (Reporting by Frank Jack Daniel, Editing by Sandra Maler)



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