Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan suffered electrical power outages in major cities on Tuesday. Authorities and residents of the countries report.
As for Kyrgyzstan, power outages occurred in Osh, Jalal-Abad, Karakol, as well as in Batken, Chui, Talas regions.
Outages were reported in Kazakhstan’s largest city Almaty and several major southern cities close to the Uzbek and Kyrgyz borders.
Authorities in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan said they were restarting power plants after emergency shutdowns and would initially remain disconnected from the Central Asian grid.
Interruptions in the work of the mobile Internet were also observed.