PEOPLE POWER Protesters gather inside the compound of Sri Lanka’s Presidential Palace in Colombo on Saturday, July 9, 2022. AFP PHOTO
PEOPLE POWER Protesters gather inside the compound of Sri Lanka’s Presidential Palace in Colombo on Saturday, July 9, 2022. AFP PHOTO

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan protesters demanding their leader's resignation forced their way into his official residence on Saturday, a local television report said, as thousands again took to the streets of Colombo to decry the South Asian island nation's worst economic crisis since its independence in 1948.

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