(28 Apr 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Madrid, Spain – 28 April 2025
1. Pedestrians walking in street
2. Women by closed shutters of building, nearby shops closed
3. People queuing outside store
4. Various of people outside closed shop
5. People queuing outside store
6. Various of fire truck ladder extended towards building
7. People queuing outside supermarket
8. Traffic congestion on road
9. People queuing at bus stop
10. People gathered outside Sol metro station
11. Police van and officer in street
12. Woman checking phone
13. People entering shop, lights out inside due to power outage
14. Man talking on phone outside building
15. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Claudia Garcia, local resident:
"Well, the power has gone out. We went out to see if something had happened on the street and no. What we saw was that everyone was saying the same thing: ‘No power, no power’. A man passed by in a van and said it was all over Spain, Portugal and also Belgium was without electricity. We don’t know to what extent because I was listening to it on the radio."
16. People standing by shop entrance
17. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Antonio Barba, builder:
"There’s no Internet, phone or anything. Everything is saturated (meaning everyone is trying to connect to internet). It’s a problem."
18. Tilt down from traffic light with no power to traffic in street
19. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Juan (No last name given), local resident:
"Sure, everything closes. Everything practically works on electricity. And then, we are exposed to chaos; not even the traffic lights work."
20. Woman sitting in shop with lights out due to power outage
21. People gathered, some checking their phones
22. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) No name given, local resident:
"There is no internet. I haven’t been able to contact my bosses to tell them, but of course, in Seville they shouldn’t have power either, so here I am waiting to see what happens."
23. Women checking phones outside shop
24. Various of people walking in streets, queuing outside shop
25. Police patrolling
26. Various of people cheering as power returns
27. Various of people on balconies cheering
STORYLINE:
A blackout brought much of Spain and Portugal to a standstill Monday, stopping trains, cutting phone service and shutting down traffic lights and ATMs for millions of people across the Iberian Peninsula.
Spanish power distributor Red Eléctrica declined to speculate on the cause and said restoring power fully could take six to 10 hours.
"We went out to see if something had happened on the street, and no. What we saw was that everyone was saying the same thing: ‘No power, no power’," said Madrid resident Claudia Garcia.
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said a “strong oscillation” in the European grid was behind the outage, but the cause was still being determined.
He asked the public to refrain from speculation and urged people to call emergency services only if really necessary.
In Madrid, people gathered outside shops to buy food and police in marked vehicles patrolled the streets after the outage that began at midday.
Offices closed and traffic was snarled in Madrid and Lisbon, while some civilians in Barcelona directed traffic.
Train services in both countries stopped.
It wouldn’t be possible to restart trains later Monday even if the power returned, Spain’s Transportation Minister Oscar Puente posted on social media.
AP video shot by: Alicia León Perea
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