ROUNDUP: Lightning sparks massive black-out on Tenerife
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain - The Spanish holiday island of Tenerife suffered a massive black-out on Thursday, local media reported.
The electricity company Unelco tentatively attributed the power cut to a flash of lightning which may have hit a power plant in Las Caletillas in the east of the Canary Island in stormy weather.
The black-out affected almost the entire island of 900,000 residents, causing people to get stuck in lifts and traffic lights to go off.
Some radio stations and a tramway linking the capital Santa Cruz with La Laguna also stopped functioning.
Classes were suspended in schools. Air traffic, however, operated almost normally thanks to generators, Spanish national radio RNE reported.
Electricity was being restored after a few hours. (dpa)
