Sri Lanka protesters, angered by economic meltdown, storm president's house

Sri Lanka protesters, angered by economic meltdown, storm president's house

July 9, 2022 16:41 pm

COLOMBO, July 9: Thousands of protesters in Sri Lanka's commercial capital Colombo stormed the president's official residence and his secretariat on Saturday amid months of mounting public anger over the country's worst economic crisis in seven decades.

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