A huge crowd tries to storm the Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's office as anger flares over runaway prices brought about by the worst financial crisis in the island's modern history. Marshalled by the main opposition party, the SJB, the angry crowd surrounded the Presidential Secretariat and clashed with heavily armed police, who pushed back efforts to barge into the building.

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