France heatwave's first major outage leaves 68,000 homes without power

Europe's record-breaking heatwave left around 68,000 households without electricity in western France on Wednesday, the authorities said, in the country's first major power outage of the latest bout of extreme weather..Get updated faster and for FREE: Download the Gulf News app now - simply click here..The outage, which involved a transformer on the electricity grid, was related to extreme temperatures and did not injure anyone, the prefecture in the coastal department of Finistere said in a statement.