Three-wheeler drivers wait in a queue to buy petrol due to fuel shortage, amid the country's economic crisis, in Colombo, Sri Lanka. (Reuters image)
CNBC/Reuters: Sri Lanka stops fuel supply to non-essential services as crisis worsens
* Sri Lanka will shut schools and only allow fuel supplies to services deemed essential like health, trains and buses for two weeks starting Tuesday.
* Sri Lanka is suffering its worst economic crisis, with foreign exchange reserves at a record low and the island of 22 million struggling to pay for essential imports of food, medicine and, most critically, fuel.
* The government is talks with the International Monetary Fund on a possible bailout, but many people can’t wait that long.
Sri Lanka will shut schools and only allow fuel supplies to services deemed essential like health, trains and buses for two weeks starting Tuesday, a minister said, in a desperate attempt to deal with a severe shortage.
Sri Lanka is suffering its worst economic crisis, with foreign exchange reserves at a record low and the island of 22 million struggling to pay for essential imports of food, medicine and, most critically, fuel.
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Sri Lanka Runs Out Of Fuel, Only Essential Services To Operate Till July 10 -- NDTV
Sri Lanka suspends fuel sales as economic crisis worsens -- AFP
Sri Lanka struggling to secure fresh fuel supplies, minister says -- CNN
Sri Lanka halts fuel supplies for private vehicles -- Financial Times
Sri Lanka Is Put on Virtual Lockdown as Fuel Supplies Are Halted -- Bloomberg
Sri Lanka struggles to secure new fuel shipments as supply runs dry -- Arab News
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