Sri Lanka hit by islandwide power outage
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…
The Hindu reports that 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.
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