A massive power cut hit large parts of Spain and Portugal on Monday, causing widespread chaos and disruption. The outage left millions of people without electricity, while internet and phone networks were also down. Trains were cancelled and evacuated in some regions, traffic lights stopped working amid mounting delays at airports.

A massive power outage is impacting Spain and Portugal, knocking out key services and forcing the evacuation of subway systems in both countries, reports say.

A massive power outage appears to have affected large portions of Spain and Portugal Monday. Red Electrica, the operator of Spain's power grid, said on social media Monday morning that voltage has been recovered in substations in several areas in the north,