No more monkeys jumping on the power grid! A countrywide power ... home to the grid that was bamboozled by just one monkey, issued an apology but didn’t touch on how exactly one small animal ...

An intruding monkey has been blamed for ... a rogue group of monkeys jumped into Panadura Power Station, Sri Lanka, when one of them landed on the transmission line, causing the outage.

Sri Lanka extended power cuts for a third day on Thursday as it scrambled to restore its national grid to full capacity after a monkey triggered a widespread blackout over the weekend that disrupt ...

The entire nation of Sri Lanka is facing blackouts – and it’s all down to the actions of one cheeky monkey ... power outages may be expected if there is a disturbance in one of our lines.’ ...

Later, energy minister Kumara Jayakody said a group of monkeys had jumped into the Panadura Power Station during a scuffle and one of them landed on the transmission line. "A monkey has come in ...

A nationwide blackout in Sri Lanka has been blamed on a monkey that ... frequent islandwide power outages maybe expected if there is a disturbance even in one of our lines," it quoted an unnamed ...

One of the monkeys landed on a transmission line, causing a power cut, he said. "A monkey has come in contact with our grid transformer causing an imbalance in the system," the minister was quoted ...