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Bangladesh electricity blackouts after power line fails Bangladesh electricity blackouts after power line fails
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Bangladesh has been hit by major blackouts after a power line connecting the country to India's electricity grid failed, reports say.Bangladesh has been hit by major blackouts after a power line connecting the country to India's electricity grid failed, reports say.
The blackout began at about noon local time and affected all parts of the country linked to the national grid.The blackout began at about noon local time and affected all parts of the country linked to the national grid.
Official said engineers were working to fix the outage, the cause of which is not yet known. Power was restored to parts of the capital within a few hours. Officials said engineers were working to restore supply to the rest of Bangladesh.
Bangladesh began importing electricity from India in October last year.Bangladesh began importing electricity from India in October last year.
The head of the national grid in Bangladesh, Chowdhury Alamgir Hossain, told the Dhaka Tribune newspaper that the outage began after a technical glitch at a substation distributing power from India. The exact cause remains unknown, but the head of the national grid in Bangladesh, Chowdhury Alamgir Hossain, told the Dhaka Tribune newspaper that the power cut began after a technical glitch at a substation distributing power from India.
That had caused all the country's other power plants to close down one by one, he said.That had caused all the country's other power plants to close down one by one, he said.
Officials from the Power Development Board told local newspaper the Daily Star that they expected to restore power to "almost normalcy" by 1500 local time. Masum-Al-Beruni, managing director of the state-run Power Grid Company, told the Associated Press news agency that he hoped to restore full power to the capital Dhaka by Saturday evening.
The high-voltage transmission line runs from Baharampur in West Bengal to Bheramara in Kushtia district, in south-west Bangladesh.The high-voltage transmission line runs from Baharampur in West Bengal to Bheramara in Kushtia district, in south-west Bangladesh.