Over 1,500 customers in this area east of Sooke are without power as of 2:45 p.m. on June 5. (Photo courtesy of BC Hydro)

Over 1,500 customers in this area east of Sooke are without power as of 2:45 p.m. on June 5. (Photo courtesy of BC Hydro)

Over 1,500 customers east of Sooke without power

Power was lost in the area west of La Bonne Road and east of West Coast Road just after 2:45 p.m.

Over 1,500 customers east of Sooke are without power after a Saturday afternoon outage.

Power was lost in the area west of La Bonne Road and east of West Coast Road just after 2:45 p.m. on June 5. BC Hydro is aware of the outage, but its website said crews hadn’t been assigned as of almost 3:15 p.m.

The cause of the outage is under investigation.

Updates can be found at https://bit.ly/3vV17F6.

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