Sri Lanka faced a significant power outage that affected the entire island for over three hours. (Pic Credit: I Stock)
Water supplies, internet services and mobile connectivity were affected as authorities worked to restore electricity across the island in stages. The outage disrupted essential services, with the water supply agency warning people against wasting water as the power cuts could affect supplies. Sri Lanka suffered an islandwide power outage from around noon on Saturday, with the blackout continuing for more than three hours, power officials said.
The cause of the islandwide outage was not immediately clear, although the government said a failure at a hydropower station in the central hill country, detected a day earlier, could have contributed to it. He urged rooftop solar panel owners to keep their systems disconnected from the grid until the power network was stabilised and electricity supplies restored, according to the state-run utility. You use AI every day. Now get your AI Quotient. Take the AIQ test.
The minister said a failure at a hydropower station in the central hill country, detected on Friday, could also have contributed to the blackout, PTI reported.