Watch: Sri Lanka protesters storm presidential palace as financial disaster deepens

With protests towards the Sri Lanka authorities intensifying over the nation’s worst financial disaster, plenty of demonstrators stormed the President’s official residence and his secretariat in business capital Colombo on Saturday.

Video clips of the identical went viral on social media exhibiting hundreds of protesters marching in direction of the palatial constructing. According to information company Reuters, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was faraway from the official residence Friday for his security forward of the deliberate rally over the weekend.

Video footage of Sri Lankan protesters taking up President’s workplace in Colombo

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Earlier within the day, hundreds of protesters reached the primary entrance of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s residence in Colombo Fort space after overturning layers of barricades, information company Reuters reported. Police fired photographs within the air however had been unable to cease the indignant crowd from surrounding the presidential residence, Reuters mentioned quoting a witness.

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At the President’s workplace, safety personnel tried to cease protesters who crossed the fences and stormed the colonial-era constructing, which has been transformed into the President’s workplace. Video clips of the incident that surfaced on social media confirmed individuals shouting slogans towards the President as they marched via rooms and corridors of the constructing. They chanted “Gota go home”, calling the president by his nickname.

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Several individuals milled about on the grounds exterior the colonial-era constructing with no safety officers in sight. Among the extensively circulated footage on social media web sites was one through which protesters are seen taking a dip within the swimming pool contained in the president’s dwelling.

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The demonstrators who climbed the partitions of the President’s mansion at the moment are occupying it with out damaging any property or indulging in acts of violence, reported information company PTI.

At least 30 individuals, together with two cops, had been injured and hospitalised within the ongoing protests and had been admitted to the National Hospital in Colombo.

Sri Lanka, which is hurtling in direction of chapter, is dealing with extreme shortages of necessities akin to gasoline, meals and medicines, forcing the individuals to queue up for the restricted shares.

The financial disaster within the island nation has created political unrest with the protesters tenting exterior the president’s workplace, demanding his resignation. The protests have additionally led to the resignation of prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, the president’s elder brother on May 9.