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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

Gas lines and scuffles: Sri Lanka faces humanitarian crisis

Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

Chamila Nilanthi is tired of all the waiting. 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.

“I am totally fed up, exhausted,’’ she said. “I don’t know how long we have to do this.’’

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