Chile on Tuesday declared the state of emergency and curfew in most parts of the country, including the capital Santiago, a large -scale, after a rare blackout that left without millions of lightning.
In more than a decade, the worst blackout in the country caused transport chaos in the capital Santiago, where thousands of people were evicted from the metro and people prepared the buses to flow.
In a nation address on Tuesday evening, President Gabriel Borik said he was activating “Emergency situation due to devastation” for guarantee of national security. He announced the curfew from 10 am to 6 am on Tuesday morning.
Outage affected Erica to Long, the narrow South American country to a region spread from Los Lagos to Los Lagos in the north south of the country, which is an area home of more than 90 percent of Chile’s population of 20 million people. Is. ,
Attack rejected
Speaking earlier during the day, internal minister Carolina Toha vandalized as the power loss, which began at 3:16 am in the middle of the South Hemisphere.
“There is no reason to believe that this is an attack,” he said, “It was more likely to” a failure in the operation of the system “and that the grid should return and in the coming hours to come in the coming hours Should run.
The metro company, which transports 2.3 million passengers every day, said the workers were deployed at all stations “to support safe withdrawal.”
Out-off-service traffic lights caused major gridlock, some people kept walking under a warm sunlight to reach their homes.
Shops and offices closed quickly.
45 -year -old activist Maria Angelica Roman told AFP in Santiago, “They leave us work due to power cuts, but now I don’t know how we will reach home because all buses are full.”
25 -year -old clerk Jonathan Makalupu said, “All operations had to be stopped in the bank where I work.”
Hanging in the air
The Chilves Broadcaster showed a video of people trapped on several meter high mechanical rides in an amusement park in Santiago before rescuing.
An AFP photographer noticed that firefighters rescued an distraught elderly woman, who was trapped inside a lift.
The country’s hospital system and jails were working on emergency generators.
Boric overfined the capital by helicopter to assess the situation.
In the coastal city of Valpariso, witnesses also reported to stop shops and businesses quickly and traffic chaos.
Unlike Cuba, which has faced several nationwide power outages in the last six months, Chile claims one of the best power networks in South America and has not blackouts this big in about 15 years.
In 2010, hundreds of thousands of people dropped in the dark for several hours in damage to a power plant in Southern Chile.
The outage took place a month later when more than 500 people died in a large-scale 8.8-Criminal earthquake and shook the National Shakti Grid.
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