Blackouts throughout Bangladesh: Grid failure leaves over 130 million with out energy | World News

Not less than 130 million individuals in Bangladesh had been with out energy on Tuesday afternoon after a grid failure brought about widespread blackouts, the federal government's energy utility firm stated.

Greater than 80 p.c of the nation was hit by the sudden outage shortly after 2 pm native time (0800 GMT), in line with the Energy Growth Board.

Other than some areas in Bangladesh's northwest, "the remainder of the nation is with out energy", company spokesman Shamim Ahsan informed AFP.

Ahsan stated 130 million individuals or extra had been with out electrical energy and it remained unclear what had brought about the fault.

"It's nonetheless underneath investigation," he stated, including that a technical malfunction was the seemingly motive.

Junior know-how minister Zunaid Palak stated on Fb that energy can be restored by 8 pm within the capital Dhaka, itself dwelling to greater than 22 million individuals.

Bangladesh has suffered a significant energy disaster in latest months because of greater world vitality costs following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Public anger has intensified over prolonged blackouts within the South Asian nation, which is struggling to pay for sufficient imported diesel and fuel to fulfill electrical energy demand.

Bangladesh final witnessed a significant unscheduled blackout in November 2014, when round 70 p.c of the nation went with out energy for practically 10 hours.