A man who had come to get fuel from a petrol station in the Mirigama area has fallen unconscious and died yesterday (21).

The Police Media Spokesman’s Office stated that the person had arrived at the Co-operative Petrol Station in Mirigama in a three-wheeler with several cans.

He had fallen unconscious while loading the fuel can into the three-wheeler.

Then the person was rushed to the Mir igama Hospital. There he died.

The 76-year-olds is a 76-year-old man. Earlier, three deaths were reported from petrol stations in Kandy, Kadawatha and Horagolla