The all island power outage was caused by a fault pertaining to the line running from Kotmale to Biyagama.

“Power has been restored to several areas by now, work in progress to restore supply to all other areas, full power supply will be restored within several hours” CEB said.

An island-wide power outage has been reported due to an system issue in Ceylon Electricity Board.

“CEB engineers currently in the process of identifying the cause of the power failure to restore the power supply” a spokesman from Power Ministry told NewsWire.

Meanwhile, CEB said that the power failure is due to a breakdown of the main line and steps are being taken to restore power supply as soon as possible.(