Nationwide power outage in Sri Lanka blamed on a monkey A monkey has been blamed for causing a nationwide blackout in Sri Lanka.
"Only in Sri Lanka can a group of monkeys fighting inside a power station cause an islandwide power outage," Jamila Husain, editor-in-chief of local newspaper the Daily Mirror, wrote on X.
The country's energy minister, Kumara Jayakody, told reporters that the blackout was caused when a monkey came into contact with a grid transformer near the island's executive and judicial capital, Colombo.
The island nation's 22 million residents were mostly left without power during the outage, which began around 11am local time (5.30am GMT) on Sunday.
"A monkey has come in contact with our grid transformer, causing an imbalance in the system," Mr Jayakody said following the blackout.
