Electricity returns to most of Chile after sweeping blackout

An apartment is illuminated the morning after power was restored from a nationwide blackout in Santiago, Chile (Matias Basualdo/AP)

Power was restored to most of Chile’s 19 million people after the country’s most disruptive blackout in 15 years, the government said.

Authorities lifted a strict curfew imposed when the outage left 98% of the population without electricity.