Shots were fired from inside the Sinhalese premier’s residence, which was besieged by thousands of demonstrators. The AFP reported this, adding that the police also fired tear gas to drive the crowd away. Police sources confirmed the shots, stating that they were exploded in the air to prevent people from breaking through the safety net where Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa is, who resigned in the afternoon in light of the clashes that took place in Colombo during anti-government demonstrations. . The toll of the clashes with the passing of the hours becomes frightening: 5 dead and 189 injured.
To witness the chaos into which the country has been thrown chilling news: a parliamentarian of the majority died about fifty kilometers from the capital. According to reports from the police, the politician, Amarakeerthi Athukprava, would have committed suicide, using the weapon with which, a few hours earlier, he had opened fire on the demonstrators who surrounded his car, seriously injuring two. The parliamentarian then hid in an abandoned building, where he had been besieged by thousands of people, enraged by the news that one of the two wounded had died. At that point, Athukorava would shoot himself.