Power cut at Sher-E-Bangla leads to chaos

Dhaka, May 10 (UNI) The media box at the Sher-e-Bangla stadium here was a picture of chaos with frequent power cuts which left three journalists trapped for twenty long minutes today.

The press centre at stadium glass enclosure on the third floor of the media block was hit by frequent power cut.

This led to the lift inside the stadium remaining stuck between the second and third floors with three journalist, two from India, trapped inside it for 20 minutes as electricity went off several times during the Bagladesh innings.

The journalists were left to shuffling between cyber cafes and their hotels and back to the stadium.

''I am shaken,'' a journalist said while another scribe decided to climb the stairs for the rest of the day.

A BCB Official said the reason for the power failure was the huge load of electricity on one grid. So they decided to cut off the power in the middle of the game and join the lines with the National Power Grid.

There were 13 five-tonne air conditioners and the generator was not enough to power all of them.

UNI