Sri Lanka's electricity grid went down nationwide on Sunday after a monkey came into contact with a power transformer at a power station south of Colombo. The incident left 22 million people without power in temperatures above 30°C (86°F) while engineers worked to restore power to critical facilities. The incident sparked social media criticism of Sri Lanka's aging power infrastructure.
Sri Lanka's electricity grid was brought down nationwide on Sunday after monkey business struck a power station south of the capital of Colombo.
Social media users were swift to poke fun at the South Asian island nation's fragile grid."One monkey=total chaos. Time to rethink infrastructure?" one said, while Jamila Husain, editor-in-chief of local newspaper the Daily Mirror, wrote:"Sri Lanka's national grid is so outdated that even a monkey can cause an island-wide blackout."
According to the Power and Energy Ministry, a group of monkeys jumped into the Panadura Power Station at around 1045 local time and ended up in a scuffle resulting in one monkey hitting the transmission line, leading to an immediate imbalance in the power grid.
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