Mumbai, Suburbs Face Major Power Outage, Local Trains Held Up

Mumbai: Large parts of the financial capital reported major power outage on Monday morning due to a technical failure.

In a tweet, Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) said, The electric supply is interrupted due to TATAs incoming electric supply failure.

Suburban local train services, operating only for essential workers at present, were affected from 1005 hours, sources said.

#WATCH Public announcement about the temporary suspension of local train services being made at #Mumbai Central Railway Station following power grid failure

BMC says, "It will take 45 minutes to 1 hour to restore the power supply." pic.twitter.com/YZGLM4ktL3

— ANI (@ANI) October 12, 2020

Multiple operators, including the state-run BEST, Adani Electricity and Tata Power supply power to the city.

Officials at the utilities were not immediately available for comment.

(PTI)

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