{"id":1395233,"date":"2022-03-23T00:14:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T04:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1395233"},"modified":"2022-03-23T00:14:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T04:14:58","slug":"sri-lanka-deploys-troops-after-fuel-shortage-prompts-alleged-murders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sri-lanka-deploys-troops-after-fuel-shortage-prompts-alleged-murders\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka Deploys Troops After Fuel Shortage Prompts Alleged Murders"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsri-lanka-deploys-troops-after-fuel-shortage-prompts-alleged-murders%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1395233&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Sri Lanka\u2019s military <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/crisis-hit-sri-lanka-sends-troops-fuel-stations-aims-restructure-debt-2022-03-22\/\">deployed<\/a> troops to hundreds of gas stations across the island nation this week after fuel shortages caused massive lines at the sites, with some crowds reporting murders and deaths among the masses, Reuters reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lankan Armed Forces spokesman Nilantha Premaratne told Reuters on March 22, \u201cat least two army personnel will be deployed at every fuel pump\u201d to help distribute fuel to customers frustrated by long lines at the stations.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cTension over the scarcity of supplies has led to sporadic violence among residents jostling to buy fuel and other essential items,\u201d the news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice said a man was stabbed to death on Monday [March 21] in an argument with the driver of a three-wheeled vehicle, while last week three elderly men died while queueing to buy fuel in sweltering heat,\u201d according to Reuters.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20310752\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/wi\/afp\/21\/sri-lanka-is-grappling-worst-economic-meltdown-independence-1948-rolling-electricity-blackouts.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">People queue to buy Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) cylinders following shortages of essentials, in Colombo on March 21, 2022. (Photo by ISHARA S. KODIKARA\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cSeveral altercations were reported in connection with fuel queues in the last few days, while a murder took place at Horagolla, Nittambuwa on Sunday [March 20] due to an argument in the filling station,\u201d Sri Lanka\u2019s News 1st website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsfirst.lk\/2022\/03\/22\/security-measures-in-place-at-filling-stations-lokuge\/\">reported<\/a> on March 22.<\/p>\n<p>News 1st reported separately on March 22 that some people fed up with the nationwide fuel shortages had begun to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsfirst.lk\/2022\/03\/22\/sri-lankan-calls-in-stf-troops-to-control-protest-for-gas\/\">stage<\/a> a mass protest against the Sri Lankan government by blocking the main road in Sri Lanka\u2019s southern town of Rathgama on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/3\/22\/sri-lanka-deploys-troops-fuel-shortage-protests\">cited<\/a> social media visuals to report a similar protest on March 21 in which a group of women allegedly \u201cblockad[ed] a coach carrying tourists to protest against shortages of kerosene needed for cooking stoves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lankan produce traders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsfirst.lk\/2022\/03\/22\/fuel-shortage-affects-vegetable-supply\/\">told<\/a> News 1st on March 22, \u201cthe lack of diesel for businessmen\u201d has negatively impacted the usual business of merchants who move and sell fresh vegetables across Sri Lankan farmers\u2019 markets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough the Katugastota Economic Center has received stocks of vegetables these days, because of the current fuel crisis there has been a sharp decline in the number of buyers,\u201d Katugastota Traders Association Chairman D.N. Silva told the news website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a result, the prices of vegetables at the Katugastota Economic Center have dropped sharply these days,\u201d he revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s fuel shortage is part of a larger financial crisis the country has suffered from since the onset of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic in March 2020. The small, tropical island nation traditionally relied heavily upon tourism and remittances from Sri Lankans working abroad to fuel its economy but was dealt a blow when the pandemic hampered both sectors. Sri Lanka is currently reeling from a deficit of foreign currency that has left its traders unable to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/3\/19\/sri-lanka-cancels-school-exams-over-paper-shortage\">finance<\/a> crucial imports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShortages have wrought havoc on almost every aspect of daily life, with authorities last week postponing term tests for millions of students because of a lack of paper and ink,\u201d Al Jazeera noted on March 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s military deployed troops to hundreds of gas stations across the island nation this week after fuel shortages caused massive lines at the sites, with some crowds reporting murders<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1395233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}