{"id":9244,"date":"2022-07-13T12:21:01","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T12:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=9244"},"modified":"2022-07-13T12:21:01","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T12:21:01","slug":"sri-lanka-declares-state-of-emergency-after-president-flees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/sri-lanka-declares-state-of-emergency-after-president-flees\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka declares state of emergency after president flees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crisis-hit Sri Lanka declared an indefinite nationwide state of emergency on Wednesday, hours after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country, the prime minister\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since the president is out of the country, an emergency has been declared to deal with the situation in the country,&#8221; Dinouk Colombage, spokesman for Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they were also imposing an indefinite curfew across the Western Province, which includes the capital Colombo, to contain growing protests after Rajapaksa flew to the Maldives in a military aircraft.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/indian-plane-with-138-passengers-onboard-makes-emergency-landing-in-karachi.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Indian plane with 138 passengers onboard makes emergency landing in Karachi<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of demonstrators had mobbed the premier\u2019s office, prompting police to fire tear gas to hold them back from overrunning the compound.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are ongoing protests outside the prime minister\u2019s office in Colombo and we need the curfew to contain the situation,&#8221; a senior police officer told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>He said they were under orders to crack down against demonstrators disrupting the functioning of the state.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of men and women overran Rajapaksa\u2019s official residence on Saturday, forcing him to escape to a military base and later flee the country.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said he had promised to resign on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crisis-hit Sri Lanka declared an indefinite nationwide state of emergency on Wednesday, hours after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country, the prime minister\u2019s office said. &#8220;Since the president is out of the country, an emergency has been declared to deal with the situation in the country,&#8221; Dinouk Colombage, spokesman for Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":9245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[6189,44],"class_list":["post-9244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-ranil-wickremesinghe","tag-sri-lanka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}