Power supply in Pakistan being restored after hours of blackout

Power supply in Pakistan is being restored in phases after the country witnessed one of its worst blackouts around midnight, leaving millions of citizens in darkness.

As of Sunday afternoon, supplies were beginning to resume in the cities, power minister Omar Ayub Khan said on Twitter. The nationwide outage was triggered by a snag at the Guddu power plant, the country’s largest, causing the national grid to collapse, according to Khan.

Residents took to Twitter to voice their anger at the situation, while others offered good wishes for those being treated in hospitals.