00:00Power was restored to thousands of households in Berlin that had been without electricity in freezing temperatures for four days, following a suspected far-left attack on high-voltage lines, authorities said on Wednesday.
00:14About 45,000 households and 2,200 businesses lost their supply on Saturday morning after a fire on a bridge that carries high-voltage cables over the Teltow Canal in the southwest of the German capital, affecting an estimated 100,000 people.
00:34Authorities said they were able to reconnect many to the network gradually, but several days of work were required to repair the damage.
00:41It was the longest blackout in the city since the end of World War II.
00:4610 Grad, with glasses and so, I get a lot of clear, I have a lot of glasses, but the heat makes one really to achieve.
00:52We have the most offers for help, and the people who come here, what they ask is to actually download the phone, go to sleep, so that you can go back to the apartment and keep the day again.
01:04German authorities say they are investigating sabotage, membership in a terrorist organization and arcing after a little-known far-left grouping claimed to have been responsible.
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