A huge power cut across Spain and Portugal left millions of people stranded on trains and airport floors. A state of emergency was declared in Madrid after large swathes of the population had no power

Power has been restored to most areas of Spain, Portugal and southern France after a major outage wiped out the Iberian peninsula. Trains, planes and traffic were brought to a standstill on Monday 28 April after the power network went down. Mobile phones, cashpoints, supermarkets and schools were also affected as the electricity supply was cut off.

Officials in Spain and Portugal were racing to restore electricity early Tuesday after a huge power outage that grounded flights, paralyzed metro systems, disrupted mobile communications and shut down ATMs.