San
Juan (AFP) - Puerto Rico's power grid broke down again on Thursday,
leaving some 800,000 customers without power, as the US Caribbean
possession struggles to recover five months after Hurricane Maria
slammed the island.
Justo
Gonzalez, head of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA),
said that one of the island's main transmission lines was out of
service. Officials said the line should be fully operational again
before Friday.
The
government-owned utility has 1.5 customers out of a population of 3.5
million -- not counting the 500,000 Puerto Ricans who left since Maria
struck on September 20, 2017.
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