Protesters set fire to Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s private residence Saturday, hours after he said he will step down following mass demonstrations.
Wickremesinghe is safe, his office said in a text message, without elaborating. The prime minister has held the job for about two months after earlier protests forced out his predecessor.
The attack came at the end of a long day of protests that included demonstrators breaching security cordons near the presidential palace and entering Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s official residence. The president had left the compound Saturday morning and his whereabouts were not known, according to his secretary.
