An electrical outage affecting 4,200 customers, most of them in the northern and western parts of Cape Gir-ardeau, was reported at 12:25 p.m. Saturday.
A spokeswoman for Amer-enUE said the outage was caused when a water company hit a main power line while digging. She did not provide the name of the water company.
A spokesman for Alliance Water Resources in Cape Girardeau said his company was not involved as far as he knew.
AmerenUE expected power to be restored to all customers by 3:30 p.m. Saturday or sooner.
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