16 March 2016 11:27 am Views - 3672
President Maithripala Sirisena on Monday directed the military to provide security to all CEB installations and substations after the island -wide blackouts.
The explosion of a transformer and consequent damage to another major transformer at the Biyagama station was identified as the cause of the power failure which lasted more than 8 hours throughout the country.
Military spokesman Brigadier Jayanath Jayaweera said members of the tri-forces were deployed to CEB installations at 6 this morning. (DS)