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Reuters
Reuters
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Uditha Jayasinghe

Doctors, bankers protest 'impossible situation' as Sri Lanka runs out of fuel

Motorbikes, cars and three-wheelers wait in a queue to buy petrol due to fuel shortage, during the country's economic crisis, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 29, 2022. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte

Doctors and bankers were among hundreds of Sri Lankans who marched on Wednesday to demand the government resolve a severe fuel shortage at the heart of the Indian Ocean island's worst economic crisis in decades or step down.

Weeks of street demonstrations against cascading woes such as power cuts and shortages of food and medicine brought a change in government last month after nine people were killed and about 300 injured in protests.

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