Energy officials have warned of serious deficiencies in Italy's electricity system, following Sunday's massive power cut that left almost the whole country in darkness.
An accident on a power supply line in neighbouring Switzerland caused a domino effect, which triggered grid failure across Italy in a matter of seconds. At least three people are reported to have died in accidents during the blackout, and power was only restored gradually during Sunday. Some train services are still disrupted, and there were warnings that 5 percent of households could still face power cuts on Monday. Only the island of Sardinia escaped the outage, which struck at about 03:30 (01:30 GMT) on Sunday morning. It was the latest in a series of major blackouts to affect national power grids - north-east United States and Canada were hit last month, and Denmark and southern Sweden on Tuesday.

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