The Prague metro remained temporarily on Friday, and firefighters rescued users trapped in the elevators after a breakdown caused by the fall of a electric line that affected a large part of the Czech Republic.
According to the network operator CEPS which spoke on X, the incident lasted several hours and assigned eight of the 44 distribution stations in the country of Central Europe.
“The majority of Prague has been assigned, mainly on the right bank“From the Vltava river,” added Karel Hanzelka, spokesperson for the pre-distributor.
The three lines of the metro were arrested for about one half-hour, wrote the DP transport company on its website.
According to Czech media, public transport has also been disrupted and production has been suspended in several other regions. Stores have closed and hospitals have connected to their rescue generators.
On April 28, Spain had been affected by a mega breakdown caused by “overvoltage“Having trained”A chain reaction“, According to a report by the Spanish government.