{"id":1432048,"date":"2022-04-11T23:59:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T03:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1432048"},"modified":"2022-04-11T23:59:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T03:59:58","slug":"sri-lanka-man-found-dead-in-drivers-seat-after-waiting-hours-for-gasoline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sri-lanka-man-found-dead-in-drivers-seat-after-waiting-hours-for-gasoline\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka: Man Found Dead in Driver&#039;s Seat After Waiting Hours for Gasoline"},"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\">26<\/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-man-found-dead-in-drivers-seat-after-waiting-hours-for-gasoline%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=1432048&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\">Police in southern Sri Lanka\u2019s Galle city\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsfirst.lk\/2022\/04\/11\/another-sri-lankan-dies-in-fuel-queue-5th-such-death-so-far\/\">found<\/a> a 43-year-old man \u201cdead in the driver\u2019s seat\u201d of his vehicle on Monday after he had waited in a gasoline line \u201cfor hours\u201d amid Sri Lanka\u2019s dire fuel shortage, the local News First website reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice said that the person had arrived at the filling station around 3.30 AM this morning to purchase Diesel for a Lorry [sic],\u201d News First relayed on April 11.<\/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>\u201cPolice further said he was found dead in the driver\u2019s seat after waiting in line for hours,\u201d the outlet added.<\/p>\n<p>The man was the fifth person confirmed by Sri Lankan government authorities to have died \u201cwhile waiting in a line\u201d for fuel, food, or medicine since the island nation\u2019s latest financial crisis caused severe shortages of basic goods in early March, News First revealed on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>While Galle police did not disclose the exact cause of the\u00a043-year-old man\u2019s death on April 11, other victims of Sri Lanka\u2019s extremely long fuel lines have died from apparent heatstroke after being forced to stand for hours under the tropical island\u2019s scorching sun. One person was allegedly \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsfirst.lk\/2022\/03\/22\/security-measures-in-place-at-filling-stations-lokuge\/\">murdered<\/a>\u201d by fellow queuers on March 20 or March 21 in the Sri Lankan town of Nittambuwa \u201cdue to an argument in the filling station,\u201d News First reported at the time.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\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 Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/crisis-hit-sri-lanka-sends-troops-fuel-stations-aims-restructure-debt-2022-03-22\/\">reported<\/a> on March 22.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReports said that at least four elderly people have died while standing in lines for hours trying to buy cooking gas or kerosene oil,\u201d the Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/pressure-mounts-on-sri-lanka-leader-to-quit-as-crisis-grows\/\">observed<\/a> on April 9.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20622539\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239913403.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">People queue to buy kerosene oil for their homes in Colombo on April 11, 2022. (ISHARA S. KODIKARA\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s Ministry of Energy recently \u201crequested assistance\u201d from Sri Lanka\u2019s State Ministry of Home Affairs to monitor \u201cfuel distribution activities at petrol stations\u201d across the country, the local news outlet Ada Derana <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adaderana.lk\/news\/81749\/state-ministry-of-home-affairs-to-monitor-distribution-of-fuel\">reported<\/a> on April 10.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[V]arious shortcomings and irregularities have been reported in the distribution of fuel to consumers from \u2026 fuel stations,\u201d Sri Lanka\u2019s Energy Ministry acknowledged in recent days.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAccordingly, the Ministry of Energy has informed the State Ministry of Home Affairs to prepare a programme to monitor the distribution of fuel through filling stations through all District Secretaries and Divisional Secretaries,\u201d Ada Derana relayed on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The news outlet\u2019s report confirms merely the latest attempt by Sri Lanka\u2019s government to help distribute fuel to citizens, as Sri Lanka\u2019s military was already forced to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/03\/22\/sri-lanka-deploys-troops-fuel-shortage-prompts-alleged-murders\/\">deploy<\/a> forces to gasoline stations in late March after mismanaged lines at the facilities became sources of frustration and even death.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201c[A]t least two army personnel will be deployed at every fuel pump,\u201d Sri Lankan Armed Forces spokesman Nilantha Premaratne <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/crisis-hit-sri-lanka-sends-troops-fuel-stations-aims-restructure-debt-2022-03-22\/\">told<\/a> Reuters on March 22. He added that the soldiers would help distribute fuel to gasoline customers waiting in excessively long lines across hundreds of stations.<\/p>\n<p>Ada Derana <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adaderana.lk\/news\/81763\/train-collides-with-fuel-train-as-major-disaster-averted-in-rambukkana\">revealed<\/a> on April 11 that \u201d a large quantity of diesel [fuel] \u2026 was wasted\u201d earlier that morning after an accident occurred at the Rambukkana Railway Station in Sri Lanka\u2019s Southern Province.<\/p>\n<p>The loss of diesel in fuel-starved Sri Lanka took place after \u201ca passenger transport train with no engine driver which had been parked at the railway station had collided with a fuel train also parked at the station, reportedly due to a fault in the brakes of the former,\u201d Ada Derana detailed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cSubsequently the fuel train had also collided with a building at the Rambukkana railway station,\u201d according to the news outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lankans have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/03\/30\/protests-as-sri-lanka-runs-out-of-fuel-food-medicine\/\">rallied<\/a> against the nation\u2019s federal government \u2014 which many hold accountable for the financial turmoil at the root of the nation\u2019s ongoing fuel, food, and medicine shortages \u2014 since early March. Sporadic protests associated with long fuel lines have grown into a massive anti-government movement over the past month, with the demonstrations successfully <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/04\/01\/sri-lanka-mob-storms-presidents-house-country-runs-out-food-gasoline\/\">pressuring<\/a> nearly all of Sri Lanka\u2019s Cabinet, save for President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his brother, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/04\/04\/sri-lanka-cabinet-resigns-en-masse-after-food-and-fuel-shortages-protests\/\">resign<\/a> en masse on April 3.<\/p>\n<p>Protests demanding President Rajapaksa resign were going strong in Colombo as of April 10, according to News First. The news site reported that anti-government demonstrators <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsfirst.lk\/2022\/04\/11\/gotagogama-protest-village-pops-up-as-protestors-occupy-galle-face\/\">erected<\/a> a tent city in an ocean-front park called Galle Face in Colombo, Sri Lanka\u2019s national capital, over the weekend.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19450314\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/gotabaya-rajapaksa-top-defence-official-2009-president-brother-mahinda-crushed-tamil-rebel-leade.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19450314\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/gotabaya-rajapaksa-top-defence-official-2009-president-brother-mahinda-crushed-tamil-rebel-leade.png\" alt=\"Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa addresses the 76th session of the UN General Assembly on September 22, 2021, in New York. (Photo by JOHN ANGELILLO \/ various sources \/ AFP)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa addresses the 76th session of the UN General Assembly on September 22, 2021, in New York. (JOHN ANGELILLO\/various sources \/AFP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe camp was set up on Saturday [April 9] night with just a few tents, and the number shot up to over two dozen on Sunday [April 10] night,\u201d News First observed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGota-Go-Gama [the name of the tent city] is like a small model village, it has all the basic requirements including free food, water, toilets, and even a make ship medical camp for health emergencies,\u201d according to the news website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in southern Sri Lanka\u2019s Galle city\u00a0found a 43-year-old man \u201cdead in the driver\u2019s seat\u201d of his vehicle on Monday after he had waited in a gasoline line \u201cfor hours\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1432048","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\/1432048","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=1432048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432048\/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=1432048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1432048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1432048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}