A power failure due to the fall of a line assigned, Friday, July 4, a large part of the Czech Republic, including Prague, where the metro briefly stopped circulating.
According to the network operator CEPS, the incident lasted several hours and concerned eight of the 44 national distribution stations. “Most of Prague has been affected, mainly the right bank” From the Vltava, added Karel Hanzelka, spokesperson for the pre-distributor.
The three lines of the capital's metro were arrested for about half an hour, reports the DP transport company on its website. According to Czech media, public transport has also been disrupted in other regions, stores have closed and hospitals had to use their rescue generators. The firefighters also rescued users trapped in elevators.
Czech police said that they did not have“No information”suggesting that“A computer or terrorist attack” was at the origin of the failure.
On April 28, the Iberian Peninsula had been affected by a large -scale failure due to “Surruptcy” having trained “A chain reaction”according to a report by the Spanish government.
Source: Lemonde