Panic purchase empty supermarket shelves in Spain in the middle of historical blackout | Deployment

Visuals Shared Online show large crowds in Spanish supermarkets, with long queues being meandered by customers when they tried to eat food and essentials. Water bottles proved to be the most popular object. Videos show that water shelves were naked.

A video that was divided into social media shows dozens of people in Madrid who gather outside the supermarkets that remained open during the power failure. The caption claims that people tried in vain to connect with Wi-Fi.

Another clip shows how the shelves were empty when Spanish customers fell and snapped up.

“Super markets are packed all over Spain after the widespread power failure,” read a contribution to X and shows buyers with their arms full of fruit, water bottles and packaged foods.

Makes return to Spain

The electricity was restored to more than 90 percent of the Spain of the mainland in the early Tuesday, said the REE Power operator. The lights arrived in Madrid and Portugal's capital, AFP reported.

Hardly a corner of the Iberian Peninsula, which has a common population of almost 60 million people, escaped the blackout. However, there has not yet been a fixed reason for the shutdown, although wild rumors spread to messaging networks via cyber attacks.

Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro said that the source of the failure was “probably in Spain”. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said “all potential causes” were analyzed and warned the public not to “not speculate” because of the risk of a “misinformation”.

(With AFP inputs)