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On June 21, tuk-tuks, motorbikes, cars, and buses lined up at a fuel station on the edge of Colombo's Kurunduwatta, a neighbourhood of tree-lined streets and old mansions. While the tuk-tuk drivers chatted with each other as they stood around near their three-wheelers, motorcyclists doom-scrolled on their phones, flies and mosquitoes buzzing around them in the scorching heat.