Almost all of Bangladesh without electricity after a gigantic blackout

2022-10-04T12:15:41.174Z

A fault in the power grid is the cause of this outage in the South Asian country. About 140 million people in Bangladesh were without power as of Tuesday afternoon following a grid failure that led to a blackout, the government power company said. The grid went down at 2 p.m. local time, and with the exception of parts of northwestern Bangladesh, " the rest of the country is without power ", doorkeeper Shamim Ahsan told AFP. -word of the Energy Development Council.