Power Out This Morning Along Benning Road NE

(Updated at 12:15 p.m.) Some Kingman Park residents needed to manage without power for more than six hours today.

More than 130 customers near 24th Street NE and Benning Road NE had no electricity, Pepco spokesman Bob Hainey said. The outage was first reported at 5:07 a.m. Crews initially anticipated being able to restore power by 11 a.m., and then that estimate was changed to 1 p.m.

Power was back at about 11:30 a.m., Hainey said in an update.

The cause of the outage was not immediately known.

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