Millions in Chile without power as officials rush to find out the cause of outage

Millions of Chileans lost power Tuesday, including those in the capital of Santiago, the government said.

The blackout affected the northern Arica and Parinacota regions to the southern Los Lagos region, according to an X post by the undersecretary of the interior.

A “disruption in the supply of electricity” had provoked a “massive power outage” across more than a dozen regions in the country, Chile’s national disaster response service said.