Sri Lankan police used tear gas to disperse a group of protesters that went amok near the country's parliament, local media reported on Wednesday
BANGKOK (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 13th July, 2022) Sri Lankan police used tear gas to disperse a group of protesters that went amok near the country's parliament, local media reported on Wednesday.
Police used tear gas grenades against protesters who had tried to break through the police cordon on the street leading to the parliament's entrance, according to the Ada Derana news portal.
Earlier in the day, the Speaker of Sri Lanka's parliament, Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, convened an urgent meeting of leaders of political parties and parliamentary factions, which should have taken place in one of the parliament buildings.
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled the country late Tuesday, confirmed to Abeywardena his intention to resign and appointed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as interim president. Wickremesinghe has declared a countrywide state of emergency and a curfew in Colombo, Sri Lanka's commercial capital.
