Kumara Jayakody said: ‘A monkey has come in contact with our grid transformer, causing an imbalance in the system.’ The Ceylon Electricity Board said the power cut was caused by an ...

The animal had come into contact with the transformer at the station, disrupting supply to the entire country. There were no immediate details on whether the monkey survived the incident.

Sri Lanka has suffered a nationwide blackout after a monkey fell on an electrical transformer. The outage lasted several hours, although the country's energy ministry has already said that the ...

According to The Guardian, the nation’s Energy Minister believes the entire country lost power after a monkey came into contact with a grid transformer. Engineers worked quickly to restore power ...

A 24-year-old man died while trying to rescue an injured monkey stuck in an electric transformer in Mathura. Both the man and the monkey succumbed to electrocution, as the man came into contact ...

"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 ...

No more monkeys jumping on the power grid! A countrywide power outage that left many stuck without cool air during a sweltering hot day in Sri Lanka has been blamed on a rogue monkey who climbed ...

Energy Minister Kumara Jayakody told reporters at a news conference that the outage was caused by a monkey that came into contact with a grid transformer at the Panadura Power Station, located ...

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 time ...