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Feed/General/Sri Lanka hit by islandwide power outage

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Sri Lanka hit by islandwide power outage

The Hindu

Published 17 Oct 2026, 10:15 pm·1 h ago·1 min read

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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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