Yogita Lamai
Appearances
Global News Podcast
Hamas says it will postpone Israeli hostage release
The outage began at around 11 yesterday morning and lasted for nearly six hours. There was widespread disruption with medical facilities and water purification plants prioritised while electricity was being restored.
Global News Podcast
Hamas says it will postpone Israeli hostage release
The blackout caused a coal-fired power station to grind to a halt, and the knock-on effects are still being felt, with some scheduled power cuts of an hour and a half taking place across the country. The official explanation as to what happened came from the Energy Minister, Kumara Jayakodi.
Global News Podcast
Hamas says it will postpone Israeli hostage release
He told reporters that a monkey had come into contact with the grid transformer, causing an imbalance in the system. There aren't many details about what the rogue monkey did to bring the country to a halt or what became of it. But people have been quick to poke fun. One monkey equals total chaos. Time to rethink our infrastructure, wrote one person on social media.
Global News Podcast
Hamas says it will postpone Israeli hostage release
While the editor of a local paper noted that only in Sri Lanka can a group of monkeys fighting inside a power station cause an island-wide power outage.