Chaos in London after a massive blackout in the south of the UK

Traffic lights off, dark subways, planes blocked on the ground: a mbadive blackout has affected much of the UK this Friday: London, the south-east of England and Wales ran out of light due to a technical failure involving two of the major generators of the country, according to the newspaper The Guardian.

According to the news agency Press Association, at least one million households were without electricityapproximately 500 000 in the Midlands, South-East and Wales and 300 000 in London.

A spokeswoman for Northern Powergrid, which serves Yorkshire and the north-east of the country, said that 110,000 of its customers were without electricity, while Electricity, northwest, had said that at least 26,000 people had no service in the north-west of the country.

The national grid operator indicated that the problem generated by the power cut "it was already solved". Despite this, the light has not yet been re-established in some Southwest and Midlands counties and the Welsh territory was still dark.

The cuts also touched the train and subway lines and some secondary airports such as Newcastle. Train services to and from London, including Thameslink, Southern and Gatwick Express, are experiencing delays and cancellations due to the outage. On the networks, you can see videos of pbadengers walking along the tracks.

At least one of London's London Underground lines, Victoria Line, has been suspended.

Power outages have caused problems in some hospitals, such as Ipswich.