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Sri Lanka shuts schools, government offices to save fuel / 32CW44E
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Sri Lanka closed schools and halted non-essential government services on Monday, starting a two-week shutdown to conserve fast-depleting fuel reserves as the IMF opened talks with Colombo on a possible bailout.
"People will not be able to find food if they don't make money. So what I think is that this lockdown will never help poor people in this country who are suffering at the moment," says one businessman in the capital Colombo IMAGES of quiet streets, closed schools AND VOXPOPS