Staff Reporter
The country experienced a major power collapse yesterday following a technical fault in the national power grid at Ashuganj Power Plant, disrupting normal life across Bangladesh.
The whole country plunged into darkness at 11:45am as all power generation units closed down due to the national grid failure. The crisis forced patients in hospitals in the capital and elsewhere to suffer miserably, generated crisis of water in the cities and long queue of motor vehicles at different refueling stations for hours, halted industrial production and disrupted traffic signal systems in all cities, official sources said. [Read more]