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:: Cheers ring out in Madrid as power returns after a widespread outage
:: April 28, 2025
Reuters was able to confirm the location from the buildings which matched file and satellite imagery of the area. The date was verified by original file metadata from the source.
In an evening address Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Spain’s grid operator had restored electricity supplies to about half of the country.
Spain’s Interior Ministry declared a national emergency and governments from the two countries convened emergency cabinet meetings as officials tried to find out what caused the mass blackout, which began around 1033 GMT. Outages on such a scale are extremely rare in Europe.
Pedro Sanchez, power returns, Spanish Prime Minister, Interior Ministry
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