By Online Desk
Protesters face tear gas shelling by military forces near Sri Lankan Prime Minister’s residence in Colombo on Wednesday.
According to Sri Lankan media reports, the protesters also gathered near his office at Flower Road in Colombo.
#WATCH | Sri Lanka: Security personnel continue to fire tear gas shells amid fresh protests in the vicinity of the Sri Lankan PM’s residence in Colombo pic.twitter.com/PnvFkPjB5r
— ANI (@ANI) July 13, 2022
The protesters demand PM Ranil Wickremesinghe and President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s resignation. The latter has fled the county and is said to have reached Maldives.
Meanwhile, Sri Lanka’s anti-government protesters broke into the main state television station and briefly took over broadcasts, footage showed.
An unidentified man barged into the studio of Rupavahini network during a live programme and ordered that only protest-related news should be broadcast following which the transmission was cut off and replaced with a recorded programme.
Earlier in the day, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa appointed Ranil Wickremesinghe as the acting President to perform his functions while he is abroad.
