Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has reportedly fled from his official residence after hundreds of people stormed it demanding his resignation.
The President who is facing calls for resignation since March had been using the President’s House as his residence and office since protesters came to occupy the entrance to his office early April.
A massive gathering of protesters broke through barricades even as police used tear gas and water cannons and opened fire to disperse them.
Sri Lanka, a country of 22 million, is under the grip of an unprecedented economic turmoil, the worst in seven decades, crippled by an acute shortage of foreign exchange that has left it struggling to pay for essential imports of fuel, and other essentials.
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