Whole of Sri Lanka hit by power blackout

Water supply and road traffic disrupted for seven hours after main power station suffers technical issue'

The entire nation of Sri Lanka was left without power on Monday for seven hours after a failure at a key electricity facility.

Power minister Dullas Alahapperuma said an unspecified technical issue" at the Kerawalapitiya power complex just outside the capital Colombo was the cause of the blackout, which hit the entire nation of 21 million people at about midday.