Bangladesh left without power after national grid breaks down

Now, that's a power cut.

The entire country of Bangladesh was left without electricity after the national grid "tripped" on Saturday, according to media reports, including the BBC.


Lights went out across the nation of 156 million people after a line bringing in power from India failed.

It is one of the largest blackouts in history.

The capital Dhaka, where 10 million live, was hoping to get power restored by Saturday evening.

The city's airport was running on generator fuel.

Authorities said they were hoping to restore power by the end of the day.

The largest blackout ever is thought to have happened in neighboring India two years ago, when 670 million were left without power.

In New York, 800,000 people were reported to have been trapped on the subway when there was a wide scale blackout across the northeast and parts of Canada in 1965.

The largest blackout in US history occurred in August 2003 when 50 million were left without power for up to two days when a high-voltage power line in Ohio shut down.