A 53-year-old man died in Sri Lanka’s western town of Aluthgama while waiting in line for gasoline, which has been strictly rationed in the country since March because of a dire financial crisis.
“The latest was a 63-year-old man found dead inside his vehicle on the outskirts of Colombo. Unable to get gasoline, some have given up driving and resorted to bicycles or public transportation to get around,” the news agency reported.
Citing the example of a fuel line queuer named Chamila Nilanthi, the news agency relayed, “The 47-year-old mother of two spent three days lining up to get kerosene in the Sri Lankan town of Gampaha, northeast of the capital Colombo. Two weeks earlier, she spent three days in a queue for cooking gas — but came home with none.”
Sri Lanka’s fuel lines are just one ugly aspect of the nation’s ongoing financial crisis, which began around early March and has beenas the island’s worst such downturn since shortly after it gained independence from Britain in 1948.
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