North Carolina: FBI investigates gun attack on Moore County power grid
Tens of thousands are still without power and schools will be closed for a second day.
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Tens of thousands are still without power and schools will be closed for a second day.
Officials estimate that the blackout left at least 40,000 people in the state's Moore County without electricity, which has yet to be restored.
The authorities are investigating the mass power outage across Moore County as a criminal act after power substations were damaged by gunfire. The county implemented a nighttime curfew.
Large amounts of oil were leaking at Duke Energy's West End substation in Moore County.
A mostly new Moore County Board of Commissioners will meet following a swearing-in ceremony for its four freshly elected members on Monday morning.