2 days ago · A monkey has been blamed for causing a nationwide blackout in Sri Lanka. The island nation's 22 million residents were mostly left without power during the outage, which began around 11am local ...

2 days ago · A rogue monkey allegedly sparked a nationwide power outage in Sri Lanka after finding its way into a grid transformer. AFP via Getty Images. The blackout hit around midday Sunday right as ...

1 day ago · Monkey menace in Sri Lanka: A monkey in Sri Lanka caused a power outage, plunging the island nation into darkness on Sunday, an official said.The official added that the entire grid failed around ...

2 days ago · At around 11:30am local time on Sunday, a rogue group of monkeys jumped into the Panadura Power Station in Sri Lanka, with one of them landing on a transmission line sparking the power outage.

2 days ago · Sri Lanka's electricity grid was brought down nationwide on Sunday after monkey business struck a power station south of the capital of Colombo. ... between 2010 and 2025. Most industrialists rely on electricity as their primary source of power. Due to this six-to-seven-hour outage, our businesses have suffered massive losses," a representative ...

2 days ago · The power cut comes after the country faced a nearly six-hour nationwide outage on Sunday when a monkey caused a disruption at a Colombo suburb grid station. The blackout began around 11.00 local ...

3 days ago · "Sri Lanka tasted monkey business in the past," he wrote. "Only in Sri Lanka can a group of monkeys fighting inside a power station cause an islandwide power outage," wrote Jamila Husain, editor ...

2 days ago · Sri Lanka on Sunday (February 9, 2025)experienced an island-wide power outage for nearly 6 hours due to a tripping of a Colombo suburb grid station when a monkey came in contact with it.

2 days ago · An intruding monkey at a Sri Lankan electrical grid sub-station caused a general island-wide blackout on Sunday, government officials said. The power outage, which began around 11:30 am (0600 GMT ...

20 hours ago · "A monkey has come in contact with our grid transformer causing an imbalance in the system," the minister was quoted as saying by AFP. A security guard at the power station claimed that he heard a ...