Source: International Business Times
Travellers with Red Cross blankets lie prepare to spend the night at Madrid's Atocha train station AFP Befuddled passers-by holding torches and mobile phones squinted through pitch-black streets early on Tuesday and stranded travellers spent the night at train stations after a crippling backout plunged Spain into darkness. For Carmen Martinez, a 47-year-old economist, the eery hush in the streets of Madrid, a vibrant city renowned for its nightlife, "reminded me a little of the pandemic era, because there were so few people". A visibly flustered Isabel had been traipsing through the Spanish capital's outer suburbs for more than three hours with her mobile in the quest to get home and shower.
