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Officials say a hydro worker in Toronto is dead after he was injured while working on an electrical vault along the city’s harbourfront.

Toronto police say the man was in his 30s.

Fire officials say they responded to the call at 1:54 a.m. along Queens Quay near Rees Street where they found an injured worker inside the vault.

Toronto fire says they had to isolate power to the vault before pulling the worker out.

Police say he was sent to hospital and later died.

Toronto Hydro’s outage map says 792 customers are without power in the area.

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