July 13, 2022 at 11:06 Demonstrators in Sri Lanka have broken into state TV studio Demonstrators in Sri Lanka have broken into the largest state TV channel, and took over the broadcast, reports the news agency AFP. An unidentified man broke into the channel of the channel, Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation, during a live broadcast and ordered that only news related to the protests should be broadcast. The broadcast was broken and replaced with another program. On Wednesday, the country declared a state of emergency. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled early Wednesday morning to neighboring Maldives. The protesters then stormed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s office in the capital Colombo.
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