Powerless: Sri Lanka plunges into darkness amid fuel crisis
The country is facing over 10-hour-long power cuts, forcing children to study using homemade kerosene oil lamps, fishermen to limit fishing and shops and industries to limit production and business
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Sri Lanka has been plunged into darkness owing to daily power cuts, unable to keep its oil-powered turbines going because of a fuel shortage and a lack of foreign currency to pay for oil imports. AFP
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The country has no power for almost 10 hours a day, forcing children to study under homemade kerosene oil lamps, fishermen to limit fishing and shops and industries to limit production and business. AFP
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The electricity rationing also hit mobile phone base stations and affected the quality of calls, operators said, adding that their stand-by generators were also without diesel. AFP
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Several state-run hospitals have stopped surgeries as they have run out of essential life-saving medicines, while most have stopped diagnostic tests which require imported chemicals that are in short supply. AFP
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The shortages have sparked outrage across Sri Lanka, with local television reporting protests across the country as hundreds of motorists block main roads in several towns. AFP
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A train and vehicles roll in the dark during a power cut in Kelaniya, on the outskirts of Colombo. AP
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A Sri Lankan coir mill worker takes a nap at an idle production line during a power cut in Hendala. AP
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