Millions were left without power in harsh winter weather, with officials saying electricity was turned off during low usage hours overnight to conserve fuel, leaving technicians unable to reboot the system all at once after daybreak.
Why you can trust Sky NewsThe government has begun restoring power and launched an inquiry into the outage, which began around 7am local time.
Khurram Dastgir, the energy minister, told local reporters that engineers were working to restore power and tried to reassure the nation power would be restored within the next 12 hours. He said when engineers tried to turn the system back on a"fluctuation in voltage ... forced engineers to shut down the power grid" stations one by one.
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