At least five people were in trouble after an unprecedented power outage in Spain.
A family of three – husband, 81-year-old husband, his wife, AFM, 77-year-old and their disabled son, JFDF, 56-year-old – is one of five people who have been for five since Spain and Portugal.
The married couple and their son were found on April 28 at their home in Taboadela, a town less than 1,500 in Galicia, northeastern Spain.
The 81-year-old father needs a respirator, his wife is 77 years old and their disabled son is 56 years old, and is believed to have been poisoned by carbon monoxide after a failure of a generator or fuel equipment in the country.
His father was a famous judge of peace and suffering from serious illness and asked him to use a respirator. Investigators believe the generator used by the home to keep its respirator kept in the event of a power failure. They suck carbon monoxide as they are upstairs in the house.
The power outages have left thousands of train passengers in trouble, millions without phone and internet insurance, and have received cash from ATMs on the Iberian Peninsula.
Dozens of flights were also cancelled, and passengers scrambled to know their rights.
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said the European power grid had experienced “strong oscillations” but said the cause was still being determined.
He said the Spanish grid lost 60% of its country’s demand in just five seconds.
“We never completely collapsed,” he added.
