Bangladesh faces blackout as national grid fails

(4 Oct 2022)
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Dhaka - 4 October 2022
1. People on the terrace in a dark neighborhood due to national power grid failure.
2. Vehicle moving on a road through dark neighborhood
3. Various of people dining in a restaurant by candlelight
4. Various of people shopping with cell phone light at a marketplace while a shopkeeper talking with phone
5.  SOUNDBITE (Bangla) Mohammed Shamim Khan, shopkeeper:
"My family is asking me to buy candles. There are no candles in Mogbazar (where my home is). So, they asked me to buy candles from here (at Karwan Bazar). But I haven't found any candle here. I couldn't even light a candle at my shop in this load-shedding. My phone is running low on battery. But there is no way to charge it. Even I couldn't sell anything to the customers."
6. Dark marketplace while people and vehicle moving around
7. Various of people gathered inside and outside of a petrol pump with plastic jar for fuel
8. Various of barber cutting hair by the light of a cell phone torch
STORYLINE:
A failure in Bangladesh’s national power grid plunged much of the country into a blackout on Tuesday.
Footage filmed in Dhaka showed people dining by candlelight and receiving haircuts by torchlight.
Some were unable to conduct business due to the blackout, with shopkeeper Mohammed Shamim Khan saying his phone battery had died, preventing him from selling anything to customers.
Officials of the state-run Bangladesh Power Development Board said that power transmission failed somewhere in the eastern part of the country.
All power plants tripped and electricity was cut in the capital, Dhaka, and other big cities, said Shameem Hasan, a power department spokesman.
Engineers were trying to determine where and why the glitches happened and it could take hours to restore the system, he said.
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