The people of Barisal city and surrounding areas faced power cut for more than eight hours on Tuesday due to technical glitches.
The power supply was disrupted from 2pm until 10:35pm.
Tariqul Islam, executive engineer of West Zone Power Distribution Company's Barisal office, said: “Power supply in total city and surrounding areas was shutdown from 2pm for safety and security of the dwellers during a heavy downpour in the region.
“Moreover, we were forced to shut down the power supply for prolonged period due to a technical glitch in the supply line at Palashpur control room around 4pm,” he said.
“However, we managed to resume limited power supply in some areas for emergency purpose in the evening, but the full electricity supply in most the areas was resumed around 10:35pm.”
Murad Ahmed, a local journalist, said sending news and reports to various print and electronic media and publication of local newspapers was heavily hampered due to long disruption of power supply in the city.
Dr Mizanur Rahman, member secretary Barisal Nagorik Samaj, said the situation was created due to ill maintenances of the power distribution lines.
He also claimed that the officials of WZPDCO and PDB were grabbing cores of money in the name of maintenance budget.