India Today has discovered a excessive safety bunker at Sri Lanka’s presidential palace.
India Today discovers excessive safety bunker at Sri Lanka presidential palace (Screengrab)
India Today has discovered a excessive safety bunker at Sri Lanka’s presidential palace on Sunday which President Gotabaya Rajapaksa might have used to flee.
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, in the meantime, was compelled to flee amid the escalating violence and demand for his resignation. Meanwhile, Rajapaksa’s whereabouts stay unknown.
THE CRISIS
Rajapaksa appointed Ranil Wickremesinghe as prime minister in May within the hope that the profession politician would use his diplomacy and contacts to resuscitate a collapsed financial system. But folks’s persistence wore skinny as shortages of gas, drugs and cooking fuel solely elevated and oil reserves ran dry. Authorities have additionally briefly shuttered colleges.
The nation is counting on assist from India and different nations as leaders attempt to negotiate a bailout with the International Monetary Fund. Wickremesinghe stated just lately that negotiations with the IMF have been advanced as a result of Sri Lanka was now a bankrupt state.
Sri Lanka introduced in April that it was suspending compensation of international loans as a result of a international foreign money scarcity. Its whole international debt quantities to $51 billion, of which it should repay $28 billion by the top of 2027.
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