Energy minister says monkey ‘came into contact with grid transformer’, causing hours-long outage in sweltering heat

A monkey has come into contact with an electrical grid transformer and caused a nationwide power outage in Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka suffered a nationwide power outage after a monkey came in contact with an electrical grid transformer.

Sri Lanka’s Energy Minister has announced that a monkey, which came into contact with a transformer at a power station in southern Colombo, caused a...

COLOMBO: An intruding monkey at a Sri Lankan electrical grid sub-station caused a general island-wide blackout on Sunday, government officials said.

A monkey has been blamed for a power failure which has affected most of Sri Lanka. The energy minister, Kumara Jayakody, told journalists that a The...

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