“We have besieged like sardines in the dark.”

More than eight million families across Chile without energy were left on Tuesday afternoon after the failure of the electricity transmission line, which cut off the electricity supplies to most of the country.

In the capital, Santiago, the underground train system was almost immediately suspended. Thousands of people had to evacuate and cover the stations in the dark.

“We were like sardines in the dark,” one of the passengers described the moment their train stopped under the ground.

Many of those who were in elevators had to be released when the power was cut by firefighters.

A woman in the seventies of the last century was besieged in an elevator between two floors in a building in Santiago.

The local media told that it “kicked the elevator door” to attract attention to her ordeal and that her screaming was at the end of the concrete.

She said, “I am brave, I said to myself,” I will not die here. ”

The joint videos on social media also showed passengers who use their mobile phone lamps to find their way out of dark stations.

According to Metro De Santiago, the underground evacuation was completed 90 minutes after the energy reduction – but the turbulence caused by the interruption of the tart for several hours.

The additional buses that were published in the phrases published in the phrases were not almost enough to make up for the metro suspension, which transmits a rate of 2.3 million passengers every day.

Long waiting lists are formed at bus stations, as passengers are increasingly angry when the packed buses did not stop.

Their numbers soon swelled with the workers who were sent to the house early because most of the offices felt paralyzed due to the lack of electricity.

“The force came out at 3:00 pm, so we had no power at all,” said one of the store owners in Santiago. “People began to close at about 4 or 5 pm.”

The traffic in the capital was disrupted due to the failure of many traffic lights.

A truck collided with a car at one crossing where traffic lights were outside and there were reports of at least one accident that also caused the lack of operating traffic lights.

As Gridlock increased, thousands of people were forced to walk to their destinations at summer temperatures about 30 ° C (86 Fahrenheit).

One of them, Sharon Ortz, a 28 -year -old waitress, said that the public transport system “has collapsed.”

She said: “I worked late for two hours, and hung in the middle of the Costanra Center (the shopping center) and from there I had to walk.”

Some people raised the elevators on the back of the trucks.

Restaurants and cafes were among the companies affected by the power cut.

Some remained open to present those who walk home a place to rest, but many cash machines, card machines and refrigerators were not working.

Some of the most dramatic scenes that were revealed in Phantasilanda, a garden in Santiago, where at least ten people were stuck on top of the secrets.

The Fantasilandia director said that although the park has backup generators, the tourist attractions will not restart them immediately for security reasons.

Hospitals have relied on power generators.