A major power outage struck much of the Balkans on Friday as the southern European region experienced an early heat wave, with temperatures soaring up to 40 C (104 F). Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia, and Albania were all affected by the outage, leaving large parts of these countries without electricity.
The outage was described as a 'disturbance of regional proportion' by Montenegro's state power distribution company, with authorities still investigating the cause. Bosnia attributed the outage to problems in a regional distribution line, while Albania pointed to the extreme heat as the culprit.
