Bangladesh was hit by a nationwide blackout on Saturday after a transmission line bringing electricity from neighboring India failed, an official from the state power company said.
The blackout was caused by a "technical glitch" and swept across the South Asian nation at around noon, AP quoted Managing Director of the Power Grid Company of Bangladesh Ltd. Masum Beruni as saying without elaborating on the cause.
Officials were trying to restore electricity with "powerful generators" while they worked to repair the grid link, said Mir Motahar Hossain, an aide to Beruni.
"Our work is progressing fast, we hope to restore the system to a great extent, if not entirely for now," he said.
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