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With no fuel and no cash, Sri Lanka grinds to a halt

An autorickshaw driver waits in a queue hoping to get fuel near a fuel station in Colombo [File: Eranga Jayawardena/AP]

Sri Lanka has less than a day’s worth of fuel left, the energy minister says, with public transport grinding to a halt as the country’s economic crisis deepens.

Power and energy minister Kanchana Wijesekera on Sunday said petrol reserves were about 4,000 tonnes, just below one day’s worth of consumption, as queues snaked through the main city of Colombo for kilometres.

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