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(9 Jul 2022)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Colombo – 9 July 2022
1. Various of anti-government protesters trying to protect themselves from tear gas fired by police, covering canisters with blankets
2. Tracking of protesters gathered in street, tear gas smoke rising
3. Various of protesters toppling police barricades
4. Sri Lankan army personnel wearing gas masks
5. Police spraying protesters using water cannon
6. Protesters removing police barricade
7. Protesters arguing with an army official who points to the water cannon truck to stop
8. Army pushing back protesters
STORYLINE:
Sri Lankan police fired tear gas Saturday at protesters demanding that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his government resign over the island nation's worst economic crisis in recent memory.
Thousands of protesters carrying Sri Lankan flags rode on the relatively few vehicles on the roads due to an acute fuel shortage, while others rode bicycles and many walked to protest sites in the capital, Colombo, from the suburbs after police lifted an overnight curfew.
Protesters blame Rajapaksa for the economic woes and have occupied the entrance to his office for three months.
Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said last month that the country's economy has collapsed.
AP video shot by Jay Palipane
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