Sri Lanka: 2 elderly persons die waiting in queue for 6 hours for fuel at petrol stations as country faces shortage
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Two 70-year-old men have died waiting in seperate queues outside petrol filling stations in Sri Lanka, officials here said on Sunday. Sri Lankan is reeling from a severe shortage of fuel as it deals with a historic foreign reserve crisis. Colombo police said the two septuagenarians died at central district Kandy and Colombo Suburb on Saturday. Both the deceased had spent over six hours in the waiting lines.