An external committee appointed to investigate island-wide power outage

COLOMBO (News 1st); An external committee has been appointed to investigate the island-wide power outage which occurred a few days back.

The State Minister for Electricity and Energy Indika Anuruddha stated that, in addition to this, the investigation of the incident has also been given to the State Intelligence Service.

The island-wide power outage occurred at around 5.10 pm, last Saturday.

The Ceylon Electricity Board stated that within five and a half hours, the electricity supply was restored throughout the island.

It was later announced that the cause of the power outage across the island was a lightning strike on the Kothmale-Biyagama transmission line.

Spokesperson of the Ceylon Electricity Board, Engineer Noel Priyantha, stated that it was confirmed during the inspection of the data system.