The country's energy minister, Kumara Jayakodi, blamed the blackout on a monkey. This is reported by the BBC.

Hospitals and businesses in the island nation of 22 million people are using generators and inverters due to the accident. The authorities promised to restore electricity in just a few hours. However, first of all, hospitals and water treatment plants will be connected.

The energy minister explained that the reason for the blackout was that the monkey "came into contact with our grid transformer, which caused an imbalance in the system."

The outage occurred due to an emergency situation at a substation south of the capital, Colombo, the electricity authority said. korrespondent.net.