COLOMBO: Sri Lankan protesters attacked earlier this week by pro-government supporters de-manded on Friday that new Prime Minister Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe arrest his prede-cessor for allegedly instigating the attack against them as they were calling for his resignation.

A group of protesters camped outside the official residence of the premier, who was appointed on Thursday night by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in a bid to hold onto power and quell the South Asian island nation's political and economic crisis.

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