Gurugram, July 19 -- Residents across several housing societies in Gurugram's Sector 99A spent a sleepless night after a prolonged power outage that lasted nearly eight hours on Saturday.

A Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN) official said the disruption was caused after a 66kV transmission conductor snapped near Harsaru on Saturday evening, affecting power supply to seven housing societies in Sector 99A.

"The fault temporarily disrupted electricity supply, and our teams were deployed at the site immediately to carry out repair work and restore power at the earliest," the official added.

The outage affected residents of Pareen Lakshmi, Pareena Coban, Habitat 99A, Cosmos Express 99, Assotech Blith, Habitat Prime and Pareena Elite...