Minister says:
Monkey triggered power outage in Sri Lanka
The inhabitants of the island of Sri Lanka in the Indian Ocean are used to hours of power cuts. But they are unlikely to have experienced anything like this before. According to the government, a monkey caused a disruption with fatal consequences on Sunday.
Kronen Zeitung als bevorzugte Google-Quelle hinzufügen The animal had entered an electricity plant in the south of the capital Colombo and "came into contact with our grid transformer". This caused an "imbalance in the system", said Energy Minister Kumara Jayakody.
Hospitals and water suppliers have top priority
The outage reportedly began at 11.30 a.m. (7 a.m. CET) and had still not been fully rectified after three hours. Engineers were still working to restore the power supply as quickly as possible, Jayakody explained. The focus was on hospitals and water treatment plants.
The people of Sri Lanka are used to power cuts - in the summer of 2022, they were regularly without electricity for several months due to power rationing to 13 hours a day as a result of an economic crisis.
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