Venezuela blames 'attack' as another crippling blackout hits

Workers wait for clients at a restaurant during a blackout in Caracas, Venezuela March 25, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela blamed an "attack" on its electric system for a blackout on Monday, the second to hit the OPEC nation this month, that shuttered businesses, plunged the main airport into darkness and left commuters stranded in the capital.

Power went out in much of Caracas and nearly a dozen states in the early afternoon, stirring memories of a week-long outage earlier in the month that was the most severe in the country's history.