Bangladesh faces power blackout after national grid fails
Bangladesh’s power officials say a failure in the country’s national power grid has caused a blackout affecting much of the country
By AP News
Published - Oct 04, 2022, 07:28 AM ET
Last Updated - Jun 24, 2023, 04:40 AM EDT
DHAKA,Bangladesh (AP) — A failure in Bangladesh’s national power grid plunged much of the country into a blackout on Tuesday, officials said.
Officials of the state-run Bangladesh Power Development Board said that power transmission failed somewhere in the eastern part of the country.
All power plants tripped and electricity was cut in the capital, Dhaka, and other big cities, said Shameem Hasan, a power department spokesman.
Engineers were trying to determine where and why the glitches happened and it could take hours to restore the system, he said.
