The blow of the breakdown.
At least 130 million people were without power in Bangladesh on Tuesday afternoon.
More than two out of three residents were thus without electricity, according to Shamim Ahsan, spokesman for the Energy Development Council.
The grid went down at 2 p.m. local time, and except for parts of northwest Bangladesh, "the rest of the country is without power", he told AFP .
According to the spokesperson, the origin of this network failure is not yet known.
According to a Facebook post from Zunaid Palak, Minister of Technology, electricity supply will be restored at 8 p.m. local time in Dhaka, the capital, which has a population of 22 million.
Bangladesh has been suffering for several months from a serious energy crisis due to the rise in world prices of fuel and gas, following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.
Dhaka had to introduce “austerity measures” and public anger intensified following numerous and long power cuts.
Before this blackout, Bangladesh had experienced a major blackout in November 2014. Nearly 70% of the country was then without electricity for ten hours.
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