{"id":3336,"date":"2022-07-13T20:14:33","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T20:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/07\/13\/sri-lanka-four-key-moments-from-storming-of-pms-office\/"},"modified":"2022-07-13T20:14:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T20:14:33","slug":"sri-lanka-four-key-moments-from-storming-of-pms-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=3336","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka: Four key moments from storming of PM&#8217;s office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Protesters in Sri Lanka have stormed the office of the acting prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Thousands of people gathered outside the prime minister&#8217;s compound, which was heavily guarded by security forces. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">After clashes with authorities involving tear gas and water cannon, demonstrators broke through the gates and scaled the building. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The country&#8217;s president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, has fled the country, following mass protests over a deepening economic crisis, the worst Sri Lanka has faced in decades. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The BBC&#8217;s Rajini Vaidyanathan was at the scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Reporter: Rajini Vaidyanathan<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Producer: Scarlett Barter<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Camera: Jack Garland<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Video editor: Ian Casey<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-62157909?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Protesters in Sri Lanka have stormed the office of the acting prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe. Thousands of people gathered outside the prime minister&#8217;s compound, which was heavily guarded by &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}