" A 75-year-old Georgian woman shut down the Internet in neighboring Armenia for more than 12 hours last month when she sliced through a fiber optic cable while looking for scrap metal, according to Georgian officials.
Nearly all of Armenia was without Internet access on March 28 and customers of one of the largest Georgian Internet service providers, Caucasus Online, also lost access for nearly five hours, according to Bloomberg.
The woman was arrested by Georgian authorities and charged with property damage, the news agency reported Wednesday. She was “temporarily released due to her old age” on the day of the incident, Bloomberg quoted Georgian Interior Ministry spokesman Zurab Gvenetadze as saying.
She has confessed to damaging a cable belonging to Georgian Railway Telecom while looking for copper near the Georgian village of Ksani, according to Azerbaijan’s News.az.
How the woman managed to find an Internet cable that provides 90 percent of Armenia’s Internet access was a mystery, a Georgian Railway Telecom spokesman told Bloomberg."
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