Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka’s anti-government protesters who stormed the home of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa last weekend have announced that they will leave the presidential buildings they stormed.
“We will withdraw peacefully from the presidential palace, the presidential secretariat and the prime minister’s office immediately, but we will continue our struggle,” a spokeswoman for the protesters said on Thursday.
Hours before the demonstrators announced their withdrawal, and the police repulsed the demonstrators who tried to enter Parliament.
On Wednesday, protesters stormed the offices of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe after storming the presidential palace on Saturday, forcing the president to flee the country.
The President of Sri Lanka, Thursday, left the Maldives for Singapore, an official at the Male airport told media, a day after he fled from Colombo to the atoll.
About 85 people were injured during the confrontations, and a man was killed when he suffocated from tear gas.
Wickremesinghe, who was appointed acting chief, ordered the evacuation of public buildings and ordered the security forces to do “whatever is necessary to restore order”.
