By six o’clock this morning, electricity had been restored to 99 per cent of Spain. Restoring people’s sense of security and a full return to normality, however, will take much longer. Portugal has been similarly affected as, briefly, were parts of southern France.
The sudden outage occurred at 12.33 p.m. yesterday, leaving Madrid without electricity for hours.
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