YANGON (HRNW) – A power blackout hit Myanmar’s main urban centres and far-flung towns on Friday, including commercial hub Yangon and parts of the capital Naypyidaw, authorities and AFP correspondents said.
Yangon Electricity Supply Corporation reported a “temporary power outage in Yangon region today at 13:35” local time (0705 GMT), adding that it was working to restore power.
Myanmar’s second-biggest city of Mandalay, the eastern town of Hpa-an, southern Mon state and parts of Rakhine state in the west had also lost power, residents told .
Parts of the military-built capital Naypyidaw were also experiencing outages.
Local media reported an official from Naypyidaw’s Electricity Department as saying the national grid had suffered a “system breakdown”, without elaborating.
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