Lanka imposes curfew as food, fuel and power shortage trigger more protests
The Sri Lankan government on Saturday imposed a 36-hour curfew as a nationwide public emergency has been enforced ahead of a planned anti-government rally over the worst economic crisis in the island nation that has hit the common man badly.
The island wide curfew has been imposed with effect from 6 pm Saturday to 6 am Monday (April 4), the information department said.
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has given the directive under the Public Security Ordinance regulations, it said.
The move came as the island nation braced for country-wide protests on Sunday against the government’s poor handling of the ongoing economic crisis where people currently endure long hours of power outages and scarcity of essentials.
