Venezuelan Authorities Step Up Police Patrols in Miranda State Amid Blackout - Governor

CARACAS (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 30th March, 2019) The authorities of Venezuela's second populous state of Miranda, located in the north of the country next to the capital of Caracas, have boosted police patrols in the region due to the large blackout in the country, regional governor Hector Rodriguez said.

"I have instructed the police of the Miranda state to strengthen city patrols ... We receive messages about power failures across the state," Rodriguez wrote on Twitter on Friday.

The governor added that a lot of the authorities' activities were devoted to ensuring there were autonomous generators of electric power at hospitals.

In March, Venezuela was swept by a number of large blackouts.

A Sputnik correspondent reported that after 23:00 GMT on Friday, the Venezuelan capital of Caracas faced another power outage. According to reports on social media and in various media outlets, there were power failures in the majority of Venezuela's states.

Mobile service and access to the internet are also limited.