Wick-Remesinghe, in a recorded message broadcast on television, said that the directive was given after intelligence reports that protesters were storming parliament, the prime minister’s office, and the residences of service commanders.
His media secretary, Dinouk Colombage also confirmed the news of the curfew to Reuters.
Wick-Remesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s acting President after Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country to the Maldives after protests storm his office
His statement came as over three thousand people, most of them university students, continued protesting near the prime minister’s office with some of them storming the building.
However, a large number of troops had been deployed around the area and were trying to drive the protesters away by using tear gas.
Meanwhile, Sri Lanka’s speaker of parliament has announced that President GOTABAYA RAJAPAKSA will make arrangements to send his official letter of resignation.
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