Cat and mouse blamed for Albanian blackout

A 72-hour blackout in Albania has been blamed on a Tom and Jerry style cat and mouse chase.

The animals are believed to have run into an area of high-voltage cables where they caused the electricity shortages which hit parts of the capital, Tirana.

Authorities usually blame drought and the dilapidated state of the communist-era grid for the increasingly frequent outages. Unlike the cartoon creatures the animals were electrocuted.