Breaking: Power outage in City and Chinatown area, traffic lights affected too

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Update: Traffic lights are back on after a power outage in Central Singapore.

A power outage hit several parts of central Singapore on Friday afternoon (Jun 1), affecting an estimated 3,156 customers according to SP Group.

“Supply to parts of Raffles Quay, Robinson Road and Shenton Way was disrupted at about 2.41pm today,” said SP Group in a Facebook post, adding that it was investigating the cause of the disruption.

“Our officers were immediately deployed to the affected areas and our priority was to restore supply as safely and quickly as possible,” it said.

Electricity supply was “progressively restored via remote switching”, and the supply was fully restored within 34 minutes by 3.15pm, it added.


There was a power outage in central Singapore. Blackouts have been reported in the city and Chinatown district. Buildings and traffic lights were affected too.

Photo credits: Channel NewsAsia

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