Power restored following outage on the Halifax peninsula (update)

UPDATE: Power was restored to the affected area at around 10:50 a.m.

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Hundreds of people were without power on the Halifax peninsula on Thursday morning. 

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Nova Scotia Power reported an outage stretching from the north end to downtown Halifax was impacting more than 1,600 customers as of 7:45 a.m.

The utility said a vehicle accident was to blame for the outage.