A huge power outage brought parts of Spain and Portugal to a standstill on Monday
A huge power outage brought parts of Spain and Portugal to a standstill on Monday, grounding planes, halting public transport, causing panic buying and leaving the two countries scrambling to restore power to millions of homes and businesses.
Hospitals, halted routine work while some shops shut their doors and the two countries' governments convened emergency cabinet meetings as officials tried to find out what caused the mass blackout.
Outages on such a scale are extremely rare in Europe.
Witnesses at power had started returning to parts of Barcelona in Spain in the early afternoon.
It was not clear when power might be restored more widely.
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