Sri Lanka: Protesters storm prime minister's office after he flees country

Sri Lanka: State Emergency Declared After President Flees

By Luke Hunt (UCA News) — Sri Lanka’s former prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has assumed the role of acting president and imposed a State of Emergency and a 24-hour curfew effective immed…

Sri Lanka protesters enter prime ministerial compound after president flees – video

Protests erupted in Sri Lanka on Wednesday after the president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, fled to the Maldives on a military jet – but neither he nor the prime minster officially resigned, throwing the country into political chaos. After Gotabaya’s clandestine departure, a Sri Lankan official said that the prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, had been appointed by Rajapaksa to be acting president. Protesters later stormed the prime ministerial compou…

Sri Lankan president flees to Maldives; protesters storm prime minister's office

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled to the Maldives on Wednesday, driven out after an economic collapse unleashed a popular uprising that appeared to end his family's near two-decade dominance of the country. His decision to leave his ally Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in charge as acting president triggered more…

Protesters storm Sri Lankan PM’s office after president flees

Sri Lankans defied a state of emergency to storm the prime minister’s office after embattled president fled overseas.

Sri Lanka: Protesters storm PM’s office, as president flees country

A nationwide curfew has been imposed in Sri Lanka after days of demonstrations resulted in the president fleeing the country on a military jet.

Sri Lankan protestors storm PM office after president flees country - National

Sri Lanka's president fled the country without stepping down Wednesday, plunging a country already reeling from economic chaos into more political turmoil.