Dhaka: Electricity grid failure in Bangladesh left 140 million people out of the country’s 168 million population without power on Tuesday afternoon.
The grid failure caused widespread blackouts, Bangladesh’s power utility company told the newswire AFP.
The national power transmission grid reportedly failed at 2.05 pm (local time), leading to blackouts across the county barring some parts in the North.
The power grid apparently failed in the eastern region of the country, according to officials of the Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) and the Power Grid Company of Bangladesh (PGCB).
The report also said that after the afternoon glitch, all other transmission grids began to trip one after another, resulting in power outages across the country’s Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet, Barisal, and Mymensingh provinces. There are only a few unaffected districts in the Raipur region.
Engineers were trying to determine where and why the glitches happened and it could take hours to restore the system, reportedly said the Power Development Board spokesman Shamim Ahsan to AFP.
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