Power restored to hundreds of Manitoba Hydro customers

Power was restored to 340 Manitoba Hydro customers in Winnipeg's St. Vital neighbourhood early Friday more than 12 hours after a contractor knocked out a cable line.

The affected area was bounded by Dakota Street to the east, PaddingtonRoadto the west, BurlandAvenueto the north and the Perimeter Highway to the south.

Acontractor hit a 12,000 volt feeder cable nearAldgateRoad andScammelRoad around1:45 p.m. Thursday.The damage initially caused 1,400 St. Vital customers to lose power.

Hydro crews restored power to 1,060 of them by 4:30 p.m. by routing their power from another source.