Bavaria: fiber optic cable severed: thousands without internet

Manching (dpa/lby) - Unknown persons have severed several fiber optic cables from a mobile phone provider in Upper Bavaria - and thus turned off the Internet and telephone for around 13,000 people. The perpetrator or perpetrators entered a technical room of the mobile phone provider in Manching (district of Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm) on Tuesday night and apparently cut cables on purpose, the police said. The mobile network was also initially affected by the failures. It could take up to three days for the supply to be restored. The police took over the investigation.