Sri Lanka's skyrocketing fuel prices

2022 Mar Tue 12:19
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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 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
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 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
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 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
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 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
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