Security forces used teargas and water cannons to disperse the demonstrators, who were asking the president to resign due to a worsening economic crisis.
Police fired tear gas and a water cannon at thousands of protesters outside the home of Sri Lanka's president Thursday, demanding he resign over the nation's worst economic crisis.
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MIRIHANA, Sri Lanka: Police fired tear gas and a water cannon at thousands of protesters outside the home of Sri Lanka’s president Thursday, demanding he resign over the nation’s worst economic crisis. Police later enforced a curfew in suburbs of the capital because the protests wouldn’t subside.