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Residents of a Florida city who received alerts about a power outage were also warned to look out for zombies.

The Palm Beach Post reported that Lake Worth residents received the message during a power outage on Sunday. The alert warned of a “power outage and zombie alert for residents of Lake Worth and Terminus”, the latter a reference to a city in the hit TV show The Walking Dead.

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The alert, sent just before 2am local time, said more than 7,000 customers lost power “due to extreme zombie activity”.

The Palm Beach Post (@pbpost) BREAKING: Lake Worth falsely sends out ‘zombie’ alert during power outage https://t.co/LJOVesWFVU pic.twitter.com/7D5HPQovga

A city spokesman, Ben Kerr, later posted a Facebook message saying officials were investigating the bogus alert and that he wanted to “reiterate that Lake Worth does not have any zombie activity currently”.

Kerr said 7,880 customers lost power, but it was restored within 30 minutes. He did not mention what really caused the outage.