Protesters in Sri Lanka have breached the entrance to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s residence amid gunshot-like sounds that witnesses said were heard in the vicinity.

Tens of thousands of protestors gathered in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Saturday July 09 demanding the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.

Protestors were met with heavy teargas and watercanon fire on Chatham Street, Colombo, and at the GotaGoGama agitation site in Galle Face.

However, witnesses said police were seen withdrawing as protestors got closer to storming the president’s official residence.

It is unclear at present where the president is currently located.

Thousands of protesters in Sri Lanka’s commercial capital, Colombo, have stormed the president’s official residence in one of the largest anti-government marches in the crisis-hit country this year.

Some protesters, holding Sri Lankan flags and helmets, broke into the president’s residence, video footage from local TV news NewsFirst channel showed.

Two defence ministry sources said President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was removed from the official premises on Friday for his safety ahead of the planned rally over the weekend despite an existing curfew.

At least 33 persons have been hospitalized with injuries.

The island of 22 million people is struggling under a severe foreign exchange shortage that has limited essential imports of fuel, food and medicine, plunging it into the worst economic crisis since independence in 1948.

Many blame the country’s decline on Rajapaksa who announced days ago that the Country is bankrupt. Largely peaceful protests since March have demanded his resignation.

Thousands of people headed into Colombo’s government district, shouting slogans against the president and dismantling several police barricades to reach Rajapaksa’s house, a Reuters witness said.

Police fired shots in the air but were unable to stop the angry crowd from surrounding the presidential residence, the witness said.

Righteousness2:
The pictures reminds me of the oba of Lagos palace comedy Invation....it wasn't comedy!

If you Spiritual eyes, you will see clearly where the world is headed to.

Leaders of nations are have no answer to the problems of their nations. Many are forced to resign.

The World as whole is looking for someone who can have answers to the various problems and Calamities hitting the world.

Very very soon! A man whom I Believe is very much alive will come on the World stage.
He will be seen as the savior, solving all the world's problems, economically, governmentally, religiously, etc.

He would bring together a New world Order, one world religion, one world government, one world Econonomy.
He will provide the world with a form of peace but it is a fake peace.

3 and a half yrs after he comes on the World stage, his true intentions will become known. He will bring wars , the kind the world has never seen. With war will come Famines, pestilences and Deaths. He will be welcomed by millions of those on earth not taken with the RAPTURE. Unfortunately, his true identity will be known to those left behind that his true intentions are Death, Destruction and Control.

Get Ready Folks! JESUS is Coming

Sucre6:
Wereys they are even swimming in the presidential royal pool

My brothers and sisters in vawulence

KingLarry04:
Vawulence everywhere

JASONjnr:
This will never happen in Nigeria because we pray to God to bring his angels to come and fight our battles for us....


And the annoying part is the officers that will be used to kill innocent Nigerians calling for a better leadership that will favor everyone including them and their children.... But no, they will say it's "obey the useless command" ...

By now, Nigeria would've been a better place of we have been taking the wars to the right people and not to fight each other and the looters whine and dine together and their kids fly private jets and school in the best schools in the world...

Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has agreed to resign after parliamentary leaders demanded both he and the embattled president step down on the day protesters stormed the President’s residence and office.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has agreed to step down on July 13.

Sri Lanka Prime Minister @RW_UNP has summoned an emergency party leaders' meeting to discuss a volatile situation now developing at President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's official residence which has been stormed by hundreds of protestors demanding his resignation.

Blackfire:
Miscreants... terrorists... invading your president office ...


Thank God Nigeria is not like those animals

Blackfire:
Miscreants... terrorists... invading your president office ...


Thank God Nigeria is not like those animals

luwiizy:


Endsars will be a joke if another Buhari pro max step Into power.

Baawaa:

Have you use your drugs today?

Blackfire:



Bullets and koboko will also be waiting


Miscreants