Protestors spend night inside Lanka PM's office

July 14, 2022 11:06

Protestors continue to remain inside the premises of Sri Lanka's PM office in Colombo after they entered it yesterday. The broke barricades and entered the premises yesterday morning amid tear gas shelling.

A nationwide curfew was imposed until Thursday morning in Sri Lanka in the wake of intensifying protests against the government. The notification was issued by Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Wednesday.

The curfew will remain in force till 5 am on July 14. The notification said that no person shall be on any public road, railway, public park, public recreation ground or other public ground or the seashore in the schedule specified areas from midnight of July 13 to 5 am on July 14.

Citizens can move under a written permit. Wickremesinghe signed the notification as Prime Minister.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is following the situation in Sri Lanka very closely and has urged all party leaders to 'embrace the spirit of compromise' for a peaceful and democratic transition.

The comments by Guterres came as embattled Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Wednesday fled to the Maldives on a military jet, hours before he was supposed to step down in the face of a public revolt against him and his family for mishandling the economy that has bankrupted the country.

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