Georgian Woman Cuts Off Web Access to Whole of Armenia

Entire country loses internet for five hours after woman, 75, slices through cable while scavenging for copper.

By Tom Parfitt in Moscow

An elderly Georgian woman was scavenging for copper to sell as scrap when she accidentally sliced through an underground cable and cut off internet services to all of neighbouring Armenia, it emerged on Wednesday.

The woman, 75, had been digging for the metal not far from the capital Tbilisi when her spade damaged the fibre-optic cable on 28 March.

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