Sri Lanka down to last day of petrol: PM

By Alasdair Pal and Uditha Jayasinghe
Updated May 17 2022 - 4:16am, first published 4:11am
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe says the country only has petrol stocks for one day.
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe says the country only has petrol stocks for one day.

Sri Lanka's new prime minister says the crisis-hit country is down to its last day of petrol as the power minister told citizens not to join the lengthy fuel queues that have galvanised weeks of anti-government protests.

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