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Dozens of exacerbated locals staged an impromptu protest in Vavuniya on Sunday, with the Sri Lankan army deployed as tempers flared amidst a worsening fuel shortage and economic crisis on the island.
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Sri Lankan soldiers were deployed in Vavuniya as locals who had been waiting in long queues for over the last four days at a petrol station along the A9, besieged a fuel bowser.
Amidst a heavy army and police presence, eventually a military official and a senior police superintendent agreed to release fuel for distribution to locals.
The scenes in Vavuniya come after soldiers opened fire in Mullaitivu on Saturday.
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