Cuba was plunged into darkness on Friday night as a nationwide power outage left more than 10 million people without electricity, marking one of the most severe blackouts the country has faced in recent years,

Cuba has suffered a massive power outage affecting Havana and the country’s provinces that has left millions in the dark.

Cuba's national electrical grid collapsed late on Friday, the country's Energy and Mines ministry said, leading to widespread blackouts in the capital Havana and across the Caribbean island nation. Energy ministry officials said an electrical substation in Havana failed around 8:15 p.

Cuba’s Ministry of Energy and Mines said at around 8.15pm local time a power outage at the Diezmero substation on the outskirts of Havana had caused “a significant loss of gen