Sri Lanka LIVE Updates: Protests Near Sri Lanka President's Home Turn Violent
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Sri Lanka Economic Crisis LIVE Updates: Sri Lanka's capital Colombo was placed under indefinite curfew in the wake of the violence.
Hundreds of people protesting near the home of Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa turned violent on Thursday, with at least one man critically wounded. The residents slammed the government's handling of the country's crippling economic crisis.
Security forces fired into the crowd and used tear gas and water cannon to disperse the demonstrators, who were demanding President Rajapaksa's resignation.
Protesters set fire to an army bus parked across the lane leading to Rajapaksa's home in Colombo's Mirihana residential quarter, as well as a police vehicle.
President Rajapaksa was not at home during the melee, news agency AFP reported.
