In Sri Lanka, as economic crisis worsens, two men die waiting in queue for fuel

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COLOMBO - Sri Lankan police said on Sunday that two men collapsed and died while waiting in separate queues to secure fuel amid sky-rocketing prices leading to record inflation.

The men, in their seventies, died while they were waiting for petrol and kerosene oil in two different parts of the country, said police spokesman Nalin Thalduwa in commercial capital Colombo.

"One was a 70-year-old three-wheeler driver who was a diabetic and heart patient while the second was a 72-year-old, both had been waiting in line for about four hours for fuel oil," Mr Thalduwa said. In February, Sri Lanka's inflation hit 15.1 per cent, among the highest in Asia, with food inflation soaring to 25.7 per cent, latest government data showed.

 

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