‘We trapped in the dark as Sardina’

More than eight million families in Chile failed after the power transmission line afternoon Saturday afternoon.

In the capital, Santiago, the whole underground train system was almost immediately stopped. Thousands of people had to be evacuated and stations were plunged into the dark.

“We were like Sardina in the dark,” a passenger described that they stopped underground train.

When the power was cut by powered power, most of those in the elevators had to be released by firefighters.

A woman in the 70s was trapped in the elevator between the two floors in a building in Santiago.

The local media said that he said, “He kicked the door,” said the elevator to pay attention to his miserable situation and warned the screams.

“I was brave, I told myself,” I will not die here. ”

Videos shared on social media also showed metro passengers using the flashlights of mobile phones to find ways out of dark stations.

According to Metro de Santiago, the unloading of groundwater was completed 90 minutes after the power cut, but the cut off the interruption.

150 additional buses placed on Ferry passengers were not enough to suspend the metro carrying an average of 2.3 million passengers every day.

Long queues occurring in bus stops, passengers were increasingly angry when passengers were not stopped.

Their number has soon sent employees home because most offices were paralyzed with the lack of electricity.

“The power came out at 3:00, so we did not have any power,” he said in Santiago. “People began to approach about 4 or 5.”

Traffic in the capital has been further violated with the failure of several traffic lights.

In a passage where traffic lights collide, a truck collided with a truck and the lack of work lights does not have the work of at least another accident.

Gridlock deteriorates, thousands of people, about 30 Celsius (86 Fahrenheit) had to go to their places at the summer temperature.

One of them, a 28-year-old waitress, Sharon Ortiz, said the public transport system was “collapsed.”

“I have to work two hours late, I got stuck in the middle of Costanera (shopping center) and I had to go from there.”

Some people reared the trucks.

Restaurant and cafes were among the enterprises affected by the power cut.

Some were open to offer a place to relax, but many were closed because ATMs, card machines and cooling did not work.

Some of the most dramatic scenes have opened a fun park in Santiago, which sticks to a rollercoaster of at least ten people in Fantasilania.

Although the manager of the fantasilandian manager, although the park’s backups, the attractions did not restart immediately due to security.

Hospitals rely on urgent generators for power.