Spain's emergency service phone lines go down in network failure
Telefónica, a company in which the government has a 10 per cent stake, announced that the failure affected their fixed lines and 112 emergency telephone numbers in several regions.
The regional governments of Aragon, the Basque country and Valencia announced alternative emergency telephone numbers. The most affected regions have been Madrid, Andalusia, Valencia and Catalonia, according to initial reports. Later the failure spread to other areas such as Aragon, Andalusia and the Basque country.
The ministry for digital transformation and the civil service said that it is 'monitoring the situation, requesting precise information and temporary forecasts of the solution', El Pais reported.
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