A large throng attempted to attack the Sri Lankan president’s seafront office on Tuesday, enraged by the island’s greatest financial crisis in recent history, which has resulted in skyrocketing costs.
Long lines at petrol stations and rolling blackouts have become the norm in the South Asian nation as the cost of food, medicine, and other vital products has risen substantially.
Traders have been unable to pay for goods due to a major foreign currency shortage, and President Gotabaya Rajapaksa met with a visiting International Monetary Fund group to seek remedies to the deteriorating economic crisis.
Several key streets in Colombo were blocked shortly after the conference by demonstrators, who flocked into the capital despite weeks of severe public transportation difficulties caused by gasoline shortages.
The largest opposition party, the SJB, marshaled a mob that ringed the Presidential Secretariat and battled with heavily armed police who repelled attempts to rush into the building.
