Sri Lankan security forces deployed against riots

By Agence France-Presse

Apr 02, 2022 12:38 am

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka: Security forces were deployed across the Sri Lankan capital on Friday after protesters tried to storm the president's home in anger at the nation's worst economic crisis since independence.

The South Asian nation of 22 million people is facing widespread shortages of essential goods and sharp price rises, weighed down by enormous debt.

UNREST CONTINUES Servicemen stand guard as people demonstrate outside Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s home to call for his resignation as the country’s unprecedented economic crisis worsened in Colombo, on Thursday, March 31, 2022. The protest turned violent on Thursday, with at least one man critically wounded. AFP PHOTO

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