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Second WA man dies as a result of Optus outage
['Rebecca Peppiatt']
WA Today - National / Western-Australia
Premier Roger Cook’s office has confirmed a second person died after not being able to get through to emergency services when Optus suffered an outage on Thursday.
Cook spoke to media on Saturday following news that a 74-year-old man from Willetton had lost his life when he couldn’t get medical help via triple zero because of a failure of the network.
Roger Cook speaking in Kwinana on Saturday about the Optus telco outage.
Credit: 9 News PerthLater on Saturday, his office confirmed that a 49-year-old man from Kensington was the second WA victim.
An eight-week-old baby and a 68-year-old woman from South Australia also died during the outage, which stretched between 1am and 2pm on Thursday.
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