{"id":44355,"date":"2022-05-10T13:07:37","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T04:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/10\/troops-rescue-outgoing-sri-lanka-pm-as-houses-torched-in-deadly-night-of-unrest"},"modified":"2022-05-10T21:54:34","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T12:54:34","slug":"troops-rescue-outgoing-sri-lanka-pm-as-houses-torched-in-deadly-night-of-unrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44355","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka troops rescue ex-PM as houses torched in deadly night of unrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mahinda Rajapaksa rescued in pre-dawn military operation after day of protests in which five people were killed<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lankan troops have conducted a dramatic pre-dawn operation to rescue Mahinda Rajapaksa \u2013 who resigned as prime minister on Monday \u2013 firing warning shots in the air to disperse thousands of anti-government protesters who had stormed his official residence in Colombo.<\/p>\n<p>Five people were killed and nearly 200 wounded on Monday in the worst violence in weeks of protests over an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/06\/sri-lankan-president-calls-second-state-of-emergency-in-five-weeks\">unprecedented economic crisis<\/a>. Demonstrations continued on Tuesday as hundreds of anti-government protesters defied a nationwide curfew, gathering in the streets of Colombo and shouting slogans outside the office of the president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/10\/troops-rescue-outgoing-sri-lanka-pm-as-houses-torched-in-deadly-night-of-unrest\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mahinda Rajapaksa rescued in pre-dawn military operation after day of protests in which five people were killedSri Lankan troops have conducted a dramatic pre-dawn operation to rescue Mahinda Rajapaksa \u2013 who resigned as prime minister on Monday \u2013 firin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3062,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3062"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44355"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44394,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44355\/revisions\/44394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}