Nearly All Of Bangladesh Without Electricity After Grid Failure

Dhaka At least 130 million people in Bangladesh were without power on Tuesday autumn after a grid failure caused wide knockouts, the government's power mileage company said.
Further than 80 percent of the country was hit by the unforeseen outage shortly after 2 pm original time( 0800 GMT), according to the Power Development Board.

piecemeal from some locales in Bangladesh's northwest," the rest of the country is without power", agency spokesperson Shamim Ahsan told AFP.

Ahsan said 130 million people or further were without electricity and it remained unclear what had caused the fault.

" It's still under disquisition," he said, adding that a specialized malfunction was the likely reason.

Junior technology minister Zunaid Palak said on Facebook that power would be restored by 8 pm in the capital Dhaka, itself home to further than 22 million people.

Bangladesh has suffered a major power extremity in recent months as a result of advanced global energy prices following Russia's irruption of Ukraine.
Public wrathfulness has boosted over lengthy knockouts in the South Asian nation, which is floundering to pay for enough imported diesel and gas to meet electricity demand.

Bangladesh last witnessed a major unscheduled knockout in November 2014, when around 70 percent of the country went without power for nearly 10 hours.