Approximately 5,000 Southwestern Manitoba Hydro customers were without power Wednesday evening starting around 10pm.

The major outage was due to an issue with a 230 kiloVolt transmission line serving area. Areas affected included Reston, Melita, Broomhill, Pierson, Deloraine, Hartney, Waskada and surrounding rural areas.

As of Thursday morning there is no word on what exactly caused the outage.