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A sweeping power outage left millions of people in Spain, Portugal and parts of France without electricity on Monday, leading to chaotic scenes and widespread disruption.
A problem with the power connection between France and Spain was a contributing factor to the outage, the head of a trade body that represents Europe's power industry said.
Kristian Ruby, of Eurelectric, told the BBC Radio 4's The World Tonight a "specific incident with an interconnector between France and Spain" occurred on Monday...