Looking pale: The Copacabana beach is seen during a blackout in Rio de Janeiro. A massive power failure threw Brazil's largest cities into darkness Tuesday night along with other parts of the country affecting millions of people. AP/Felipe Dana
Brazil's two largest cities have been hit by a massive blackout that has also affected other parts of Latin America's largest nation.
Media reports say problems at a huge hydroelectric dam are to blame for the electrical outages affecting large parts of Rio de Janeio, Sao Paulo and other cities in several states.
The G1 Web site of Globo TV says Brazil lost 17,000 megawatts of power after an unspecified problem happened at the Itaipu dam that straddles the border of Brazil and Paraguay.
Officials did not immediately comment on Tuesday's outages. The blackouts came three days after CBS's "60 Minutes" news program reported several past Brazilian power outages were caused by hackers. Brazilian officials played down the report.
Source: The Associated Press
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