Government officials said that a monkey at Sri Lanka’s electrical grid substation was blackout on Sunday due to a monkey.
The power outage, which started near 11:30 am (0600 GMT), was yet to be restored after three hours.
“A monkey has come into contact with our grid transformer, which creates a system imbalance,” Minister of Energy Kumara Jiakodi told reporters.
The interference took place in a suburb of southern Colombo, he said.
Although electricity was restored in some areas, it was not immediately clear how long the closure would be.
The minister said, “Engineers are joining it to try to restore the service as soon as possible.”
Sri Lanka had to bear the blackout of electricity months in the summer of 2022 when the country sank into economic crisis.
Fuel stations were out of petrol and diesel, which forced thermal power stations to ration electricity for 13 hours every day.
Sri Lanka in April 2022 defaulted its $ 46 billion external loans in April 2022 for financing for the import of food, fuel, medicine and other essential goods.
Extraordinary economic melts forced the then President Gotabia Rajpaka to retire. His successor, Renneel Wickermisinghi, received 9 2.9 billion bailout loans from the International Monetary Fund.
Sri Lanka’s new president Dasnayek, who defeated Vicerpsingi in the elections last September, is maintaining the strict simplicity measures introduced under his predecessor’s administration and he has four -year -old IMF bailout It is committed to continue the program.
The Dasanaik government ended the reorganization of long postponement with both bilateral and private lenders at the end of last year, which ended Sri Lanka’s bankruptcy.
