PUBLISHED : 28 Apr 2025 at 20: 45
The widespread outage snarled traffic, halted trains and delayed flights
MADRID – Power went out across all of Spain and Portugal on Monday, cutting cellphone and internet networks, halting trains and trapping people in elevators, officials said.
Spain’s government was scrambling to identify the origin of the huge outage, with Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez going to the headquarters of the state electricity network operator to be briefed.
The operator, Red Electrica, said it would likely take six to 10 hours to restore power in the country and urged people not to speculate as to the cause of the outage.
Images posted on social media showed metro stations plunged into darkness, with trains halted, and people in offices and hallways using the light on their phones to see.
The national road authority DGT told motorists to stop driving, because stop lights were out, forcing vehicles to slow to avoid col
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