Sydney (AFP) - The northern Australian city of Darwin was thrown into chaos Wednesday with a mass power outage closing schools and public sector offices, and knocking out traffic lights.
A tripped circuit cut power to most of city of some 120,000 people early in the morning, with the government mobilising emergency management protocols as technicians desperately worked to fix the problem.
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