Sri Lanka Protest Sri Lanka: Students protest outside PM's residence, demand resignation
Colombo: Thousands of Sri Lankan students, mostly university students, on Sunday protested outside Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa's residence demanding his resignation over the island nation's economic crisis.
Sri Lanka's economic crisis has seen months of lengthy power cuts, acute food and fuel shortages, record inflation which have sparked increasing public discontent.
The south Asian nation is facing its worst economic downturn since independence in 1948.
Today's protest saw students scale the fence of PM Rajapaksa's compound after police erected barricades on various roads around the capital to stop protestors from linking up with other demonstrators elsewhere.
Protesters reportedly tried to pull down the barricades that were preventing them from entering the residence.
Slogans against the government were raised, calling for it to resign.
Police said PM Mahinda Rajapaksa was not at the property at the time and the crowd left peacefully.
(With UNI inputs)
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