Power out in parts of Yolanda-hit Tacloban City

(Updated 2:11 p.m.) Parts of Tacloban City, one of the areas hit by super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) last November, went without power again before dawn Saturday.

The sudden brownout hit the city's downtown area as of 4 a.m., radio dzBB's Rodil Vega reported. The downtown area had been among the areas where power was first restored.

While a local hospital near the provincial capitol had power, there was no electricity to power street lights in the area, the report added.

Some parts of Tacloban City are still without power since Yolanda devastated the Visayas last Nov. 8.  Generators are being used in some areas.

It was not immediately clear if the brownout was due to a power interruption in Samar and parts of Leyte due to the tripping of the Ormoc-Babatngon 138-kilovolt line.

The National Grid Corp. of the Philippines said on its Twitter account it is working to restore power transmission services.

"Reports indicate that the Ormoc-Babatngon 138kV line tripped at 12:03 a.m. today," it said.

But the NGCP said in a later tweet that power transmission services to portions of Leyte and Samar had been restored. — LBG, GMA News.