Srilankan Police order troops to open fire on vandals and looters
A group of anti-government protestors has set ablaze the ancestral home of the Rajapaksa family in Hambantota, hours after Mahinda Rajapaksa, the patriarch of the strong clan, resigned as prime minister.
A video showed Mahinda Rajapaksa's and Gotabaya Rajapaksa's entire house in NSE 0.98 % Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa's home in Medamulana in Hambantota city engulfed in flames as protestors hooted away.
In Kurunegala, protestors also burnt down Prime Minister Mahinda's house, while a mob targeted the D. A. Rajapaksa Memorial in Medamulana, Hambantota, erected in memory of Mahinda's father.
According to Sri Lankan media reports, a fire also broke out near the back gate of Temple Trees. The official residence of the Sri Lankan Prime Minister.
Police have called in water canno...