Sri Lanka: protesters set ministers' homes on fire as economic crisis deepens

Sri Lanka’s prime minister, Mahinda Rajapaksa, has resigned after five people were killed in violent protests amid an unprecedented economic crisis.
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Rajapaksa had to be rescued in a pre-dawn operation by the military after thousands of anti-government protesters stormed his official residence in Colombo overnight. Dozens of homes of Rajapaksa loyalists were torched elsewhere in the curfew-bound country, which has been under a state of emergency since Friday

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