Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled his official residence in Colombo right before thousands of protestors broke through police barricades to trespass the compound.?
According to an AFP report, the Sri Lankan president was moved out of his official residence on Friday to avoid the angry protestors who eventually broke into the government property.??
Sri Lanka is going through its worst economic crisis in 70 years - it has been suffering from months of food and fuel shortages, long blackouts and skyrocketing inflation.?
Footage of the ambush was shared by local media which shows the exact moment thousands of anti-government demonstrators broke into the president's official residence in Colombo on Saturday.?
The angry crowd broke through police barricades, climbed walls and broke into the residence despite authorities using water cannons and tears gas to stop them.?
Protestors were also recorded taking a dip in the Presidential Palace pool. Videos of the incident have gone viral which show hundreds of people inside the premises of Rajapaksa's official residence.?
Crowds had burst into the capital for a planned demonstration to demand Rajapaksa's resignation due to the unrest sparked by the nation's unprecedented economic crisis.?
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