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Power outage plunges Spain and Portugal into chaos
The Morning Standard
|April 29, 2025
PANICKED customers scrambled to withdraw cash from banks and streets overflowed with crowds trying in vain to get a signal as a nationwide power outage plunged Spain into chaos on Monday. The blackout also affected parts of France and Portugal.
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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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