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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 12101745" data-attributes="member: 92282">Sri Lankan police fired on fishermen protesting fuel price increases  Wednesday, killing one person and wounding three, a witness and a doctor  said.                        Police spokesman Ajith Rohana said police used tear gas to  disperse an “unlawful mob” but refused to comment on whether police  fired guns at the protesters.Thousands of fishermen were walking in a protest march near the  fishing town of Chilaw and clashed with police, who later opened fire at  them, said local journalist Jude Samantha who was at the scene in the  town 70 kilometers (43 miles) north of the capital, Colombo.Police  tried to block the protesters from entering the Chilaw town and in turn  protesters started hurling stones at the police, Samantha said. Police  used tear gas and then opened fire.Dr. Dinusha Jayasinghe said  one dead person and three with gunshot wounds were brought to the town  hospital. She said one person’s condition is critical.Protests have swept across Sri Lanka after the government increased fuel prices Saturday night.Separately  on Wednesday, police used tear gas and water cannons to stop hundreds  of opposition Marxist party activists who tried to march to the center  of Colombo to protest fuel prices.Private bus owners launched a  strike Monday, crippling public transportation, and the government  increased bus fares as a result. Fishermen from coastal villages and  towns burned tires and blocked roads with their boats to demand fuel  prices be reduced.The government said prices had to be raised  since world oil prices have increased. Government spokesman Anura  Priyadarshana Yapa said the government has arranged fuel subsidies for  bus owners, fishermen and taxi owners.<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Associated_Press_logo.svg/120px-Associated_Press_logo.svg.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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