Sri Lanka’s prime minister, Mahinda Rajapaksa, has resigned after five people were killed in violent protests amid an unprecedented economic crisis.
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Rajapaksa had to be rescued in a pre-dawn operation by the military after thousands of anti-government protesters stormed his official residence in Colombo overnight. Dozens of homes of Rajapaksa loyalists were torched elsewhere in the curfew-bound country, which has been under a state of emergency since Friday

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