Chile has been hit by its worst blackout in 15 years after a transmission line failure knocked out power for hours for more than 90 per cent of its population as well as the country’s crucial copper mines.
The outage, which began on Tuesday afternoon, disrupted power supplies in 14 of the 16 regions across Chile’s 4,300km territory, according to the country’s national disaster response service.
In a late-night national broadcast, Chile’s leftwing president Gabriel Boric blamed the outages on a fault in infrastructure installed by energy transmission company ISA Interchile and pledged to investigate the companies involved.
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