Cuba Suffers Fourth Nationwide Blackout In Five Months

Car lights illuminate a street in Havana, Cuba during a widespread electricty blackout that hit much of the island nation (Credit: AFP)

Cuba suffered a general blackout on Friday caused by a crash of its national electricity grid, officials said, the fourth major power outage on the cash-strapped communist island in five months.

"At around 8:15 pm tonight, a breakdown... caused the significant loss of power in western Cuba and with it the fall of the national electricity system," the Ministry of Energy and Mines said.