Protesters storming Sri Lanka Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's office in Colombo. - AP
COLOMBO (AFP): Sri Lanka's anti-government demonstrators were in talks today to hand back official buildings they seized, protest representatives said, even as they insisted that the president and prime minister both quit in the face of an economic crisis.
Protesters overran President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's palace at the weekend, forcing him to flee to the Maldives on Wednesday, when activists also stormed the office of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.
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