A second senior citizen died Sunday (20) morning while waiting in line for fuel in cash-strapped Sri Lanka, police said, barely 24 hours after the death of a 71-year-old man under similar circumstances.
According to police spokesman SSP Nihal Thalduwa, the victim, a 70-year-old resident of Makola, Gamapaha, had collapsed while standing in a queue at a filling station in Kadawatha.
Thalduwa said the man, a threewheeler driver by profession, had only been standing in the queue for 15 minutes and had had a history of high blood sugar and medication for cardiac issues.
Sri Lanka is facing a fuel crisis after forex shortages were caused by money printed to keep interest rates low in a bid to build a ‘production economy.’