Thousands of protesters in Sri Lanka storm president’s official residence

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Sri Lanka is rocked by crisis as thousands of protestors storm the president’s house in the capital of Colombo over public anger at the government’s handling of an economic crisis. 

Sri Lanka television report that street protests turned violent as thousands of demonstrators surged into the presidential compound of Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.

Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, has summoned an emergency meeting of political party leaders today in response.

The island country has been crippled by a shortage of foreign exchange that has left the country struggling to pay for essential imports of food, fuel and medicine. 

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