Sri Lanka's skyrocketing fuel prices
Lankans are protesting against the worsening economic crisis that has brought fuel shortages, spiraling food prices and selling the country's most important natural assets to India.
A woman argues with others as people start queue jumping after the first oil bowser with kerosene arrives, as they wait to buy kerosene oil for kerosene cookers amid a shortage of domestic gas due to country's economic crisis, at a fuel station in Colombo, Sri Lanka - Photo: Reuters
A boy sits on empty containers with his parents as they wait to buy kerosene oil used for kerosene cookers amid a shortage of domestic gas due to country's economic crisis, at a fuel station in Colombo, Sri Lanka - Photo: Reuters
Members of Socialist Youth Union try to enter into the President's secretariat as a police officer tries to stop them a protest against the worsening economic crisis that has brought fuel shortages, spiralling food prices and selling the country's most important natural assets to India in Colombo, Sri Lanka - Photo: Reuters
A Buddhist monk, member of Socialist Youth Union hits a police officer as the cap flies off while demonstrators try to enter into the President's secretariat during a protest against the worsening economic crisis that has brought fuel shortages, spiralling food prices and selling the country's most important natural assets to India in Colombo, Sri Lanka - Photo: Reuters
A Buddhist monk, member of Socialist Youth Union tries to enter into the President's secretariat as Special Task Force members stop him during a protest against the worsening economic crisis that has brought fuel shortages, spiralling food prices and selling the country's most important natural assets to India in Colombo, Sri Lanka - Photo: Reuters
A man shouts against President Gotabaya Rajapaksa as people block the main road in front of the President's secretariat during a protest organised by main opposition party Samagi Jana Balawegaya against the worsening economic crisis that has brought fuel shortages and spiralling food prices in Colombo, Sri Lanka - Photo: Reuters
People block the main road in front of the President's secretariat during a protest organised by main opposition party Samagi Jana Balawegaya against the worsening economic crisis that has brought fuel shortages and spiralling food prices in Colombo, Sri Lanka - Photo: Reuters
A staff uses a traditional Sri Lankan wooden stove to cook at a hotel during a power outage after main two gas companies have suspended supplies as the country grapples with a severe foreign exchange shortage, in Colombo, Sri Lanka - Photo: Reuters