On Tuesday, the government’s utility company said that about 140 million people in Bangladesh were without power after a grid failure caused widespread blackouts. “The grid failed at 2 pm (08:00 GMT) and, apart from parts of Bangladesh’s northwest, the rest of the country is without power”, Power Development Board spokesman Shamim Ahsan said.

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