Taiwan minister resigns after massive blackout hits island for a few hours

Taiwan's economy minister has resigned after a generator failure at a power plant caused a massive blackout that affected millions of households across the island during sweltering heat.

The power outage plunged traffic, shopping malls and offices into darkness early Tuesday evening around 5pm.Taiwan's Central News Agency says "an operational technical error" caused six generators to stop working at Taiwan's biggest natural gas power plant.