Squirrel causes power outage

Northern Ireland Electricity believe a squirrel may have been the cause of a power outage which shut down the traffic lights in parts of Lurgan.
By Carmel Robinson
Published 14th Jul 2015, 12:05 BST
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Around 900 homes were without power for around two hours this morning.

Plus the traffic lights at Lurgan’s Lough Road and Annesborough were out.

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The power cut happened at around 8.30am and it was fixed by 10.30am.

A spokesperson for NIE said engineers believed a squirrel had come in contact with a transformer causing the outage.

She also said the squirrel had been electrocuted.

All power is back to normal