Cuba suffered a general blackout on Friday caused by a crash of its national electricity grid, officials said, the fourth major power outage on the cash-strapped communist island in five months. "At around 8:15 pm tonight,

Cuba’s power grid collapsed Friday night, triggering a nationwide power outage and plunging its more than 10 million people into darkness. “At around 8:15 p.m. tonight, a failure at the Diezmero substation caused a significant loss of generation in the west of #Cuba and with it the failure of the National Electric System,

The lights were out across all of Havana's waterfront skyline, a Reuters witness observed, with only a scattered few tourist hotels operating on fuel-fired generators. Reports on social media from outlying provinces both east and west of the capital city suggested much of the country of 10 million people was without power.

Cuba's power grid collapsed, causing widespread blackouts across the island, including Havana. An electrical substation failure in the capital triggered the outage, affecting much of the country. This event follows recent widespread blackouts and highlights the country's frail power infrastructure amidst ongoing economic struggles.

Cuba experienced a nationwide blackout on Friday due to a failure at the Diezmero substation, marking the third major grid collapse in two months. Off

Cuba's national electrical grid failed late on Friday, according to state-run media, leading to widespread blackouts in the capital Havana and across the country. Officials said they were investigating the causes and magnitude of the grid failure,