Sri Lanka hit by islandwide power outage
The cause of the islandwide outage was not immediately clear, although the government said a failure at a hydropower station in the central hill country, detected a day earlier, could have contributed to it
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- 2026-10-17 11:15 UTCThe Hindu · thehindu.com ↗
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