Powerful storm leaves millions sans power in 32 dists, kills 12Millions of people in at least 32 northern and southern districts have been left without power as one of the transmission lines of the national grid tripped during repair of another line damaged by a powerful storm, report agencies.The powerful storm also killed 12 in Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj districts. "We have restored the power supply to most of the areas," said Masum-Al-Beruni, managing director of the Power Grid Company of Bangladesh or PGCB. "The areas that are still experiencing outages will get back power soon," he said. We hope power transmission will resume by the evening," PGCB spokesman ABM Badruddoza Khan had said earlier.The national grid's Ashuganj-Sirajganj line was damaged due to a storm on Monday, he said. "The Ghorasal-Ishwardi line tripped around 11:30am during repair work.

Source: bd News24 May 02, 2017 18:45 UTC