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Brazilian state of Amapa suffers a power blackout for days

by Marcelo Silva DE Sousa
| November 6, 2020 10:06 AM

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A fire at an electricity substation has caused four days of blackouts in most of northern Brazil’s Amapa state, disrupting the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.

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