Marten gnaws through cable, blacks out 20,000 Austrian houses
Some 20,000 houses in Upper Austria were left without electricity after a marten gnawed through an electricity cable, local radio said.
The beech marten apparently got into a transformer substation in the Innviertel region on Sunday and gnawed through a 30 kilovolt cable.
Engineers arriving to fix the fault found the animal dead at the scene.
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