{"id":45550,"date":"2022-06-19T15:28:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T06:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/19\/sri-lankan-troops-open-fire-to-contain-unrest-over-fuel-shortages"},"modified":"2022-06-19T15:28:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T06:28:20","slug":"sri-lankan-troops-open-fire-to-contain-unrest-over-fuel-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45550","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan troops open fire to contain unrest over fuel shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven wounded after motorists protest petrol shortage as government declares two-week school shutdown to conserve fuel<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s military have opened fire to quell rioting at a fuel station, officials say, as unprecedented queues for petrol and diesel were seen across the bankrupt country.<\/p>\n<p>Troops fired in Visuvamadu, 365km (228 miles) north of Colombo on Saturday night as their guard point was pelted with stones, army spokesperson Nilantha Premaratne said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/19\/sri-lankan-troops-open-fire-to-contain-unrest-over-fuel-shortages\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven wounded after motorists protest petrol shortage as government declares two-week school shutdown to conserve fuelSri Lanka\u2019s military have opened fire to quell rioting at a fuel station, officials say, as unprecedented queues for petrol and diesel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1554,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80,61,674],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-protest","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45551,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45550\/revisions\/45551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}