SRI LANKA-COLOMBO-STATE OF EMERGENCY

SRI LANKA-COLOMBO-STATE OF EMERGENCY

(220402) -- COLOMBO, April 2, 2022 (Xinhua) -- People check the train schedule in the dim light during the power cut at a railway station in Colombo, Sri Lanka, March 31, 2022. Sri Lanka declared an islandwide curfew from 6 p.m. Saturday to 6 a.m. Monday as the country faced a severe power crisis and rising inflation. On Friday, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa issued the Extraordinary Gazette declaring a state of public emergency in Sri Lanka with immediate effect. Rajapaksa said the emergency was declared in the interests of public security, protection of public order and the maintenance of supplies and services essential to the life of the community. (Xinhua/Tang Lu)

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