Panicked customers scrambled to withdraw cash from banks and streets overflowed with crowds trying in vain to get a signal as a Spain-wide power outage plunged the country into chaos on Monday.
Carlos Condori, one of millions of people affected in Spain and Portugal, was travelling on the Madrid metro when the blackout brought his journey to a shuddering halt.
“The light went out and the carriage stopped,” but the train managed to crawl into the platform, the 19-year-old construction sector worker told AFP outside a metro station in central Madrid.
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Mass Blackouts in Spain, Portugal and in part of France.
Every single part of digital life from shops, to traffic lights, hospitals, airports, phones, and trains, all down.pic.twitter.com/ETDgtfE9wk— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) April 28, 2025
“People were stunned, because this had never happened in Spain,” he added. “There’s no (phone) coverage, I can’t call my family, my parents, nothing: I can’t even go to work.”
At Cibeles Square, one of the Spanish capital’s busiest thoroughfares, the blackout of traffic lights unleashed a cacophony of sirens, whistles and car horns as police tried to control the pile-up of traffic.
Bewildered office workers congregated in streets with their computers made useless without internet, alongside residents were thankful they had not been trapped in lifts.
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