CANBERRA， Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- South Australia Power Networks said Thursday that it would pay more than 15 million U.S. dollars in compensation to customers who were subject to unnecessary lengthy blackouts late last year.


More than 70，000 customers are expected to be given the payment.


It was reported that more than 150，000 properties in South Australia were left without power on Dec. 28 after a vicious storm cell felled power lines and trees. It was the second major blackout to hit the state in three months.


According to local reports， some home were not fully reconnected with power until the new year， with South Australia Power Networks spokesman Paul Roberts describing the storm and its trail of destruction as the worst the company had experienced in 30 years.


"It was probably about three times worse than any previous storm we've experienced， both in terms of the guaranteed service level payments we'll have to make， and the minutes of supply lost for customers，" Roberts told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) on Thursday.


"We're going to be making payments to about half the customers affected."


He said that households which were without power for up to 12 hours could expect payment of 75 U.S. dollars， while those affected for more than 48 hours would receive up to 450 U.S. dollars for the inconvenience and cost of replacing perishable foods and other items.


He said the delay in fixing the issue was a result of poor weather following the storm， and was not a reflection of inadequate manpower or management.


"For example， we were unable to undertake restoration work in the Adelaide Hills for many hours as wind gusts reached up to 120 km per hour and the winds did not abate until around 9 a.m. the next morning，" Roberts said.


ISLAMABAD Jalen Ramsey Jersey , Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- At least five people were killed and 31 others injured on Sunday night when a hand grenade attack targeted a cinema in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar, officials said.


Police officer Shaukat Yousafzai said that the assault targeted crowded Picture House Cinema in the downtown area of Peshawar, capital of northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.


Police and rescuers rushed to the site and shifted the injured to the Lady Reading Hospital where at least three of the injured were reportedly in critical condition.


According to the police official Telvin Smith Jersey , some unknown people hurled two hand grenades into the cinema hall and managed to flee the site.


At the time of explosion over 100 people were watching a movie in the main hall of the cinema.


No group has claimed responsibility for the attack yet.


CANBERRA, March 19 (Xinhua) -- An Australian citizen has been confirmed among the 21 people killed when two gunmen stormed a museum in the Tunisian capital of Tunis overnight.


Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott confirmed the news in a joint statement with foreign minister Julie Bishop on Thursday.


"Our consular officials have now confirmed that a dual Australian-Colombian citizen, who was a resident of New South Wales Jaguars Kids Jersey , was among the deceased," the statement said.


The statement slammed the attack as a blatant attempt to throw the African nation into chaos, after it formed democracy less than a decade ago.


"This was clearly a terrorist attack on a fledgling democracy Jaguars Youth Jersey ," the statement said.


"This incident underlines the terrorist threat to Australians at home and abroad."


The government also said it was doing everything "humanly possible" to protect Australian citizens traveling overseas.


Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid listed an Australian citizen on the preliminary list of 17 tourists left dead in the massacre that occurred at the Bardo National Museum.


Essid also said that a policeman and a Tunisian bus driver were killed in the attack, but the two gunmen were also reported as dead after security forces stormed the building.


More than 40 people were also reportedly injured in the attack and up to 100 tourists might have been at the museum at the time.


World leaders have expressed their outrage, with Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi calling the incident "a horrible attack" and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon labelled it as " deplorable".


The attack is biggest against the African nation since an Al- Qaeda suicide bombing in 2002 which left 21 people dead in Mombassa Jaguars Womens Jersey , Kenya.

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