Colombo:
Sri Lanka’s beleaguered President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled his official residence in Colombo Saturday, a high defence supply informed AFP, earlier than protesters gathered to demand his resignation entered the compound.
“The president was escorted to security,” the supply stated, including that troops fired within the air to forestall indignant crowds from overrunning the President’s Palace.
Sirasa TV, a non-public broadcaster, confirmed crowds getting into the as soon as tightly-guarded residence.
Sri Lanka has suffered by months of meals and gas shortages, prolonged blackouts and galloping inflation after operating out of international forex to import very important items.
Big crowds had poured into the capital for the demonstration, the newest expression of unrest sparked by the island nation’s unprecedented financial disaster.
Police had withdrawn a curfew order issued on Friday after opposition events, rights activists and the bar affiliation threatened to sue the police chief.
Hundreds of anti-government protesters ignored the stay-home order and even pressured railway authorities to function trains to take them to Colombo for Saturday’s rally, officers stated.
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