Demonstrators flash flashlight and hold candles during a candlelight vigil after Sri Lankan police fired live ammunition to scatter protesters killing one person and injuring a dozen more, near the Presidential Secretariat, amid the country's economic crisis, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, April 19, 2022. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar
RAMBUKKANA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) -Sri Lankan police will launch an "impartial and transparent" investigation of clashes with protesters after the first death in weeks of unrest over the government's handling of the economy, the president said on Wednesday.
Police fired live ammunition to scatter protesters on Tuesday in the town of Rambukkana, northeast of the capital Colombo, killing one person and wounding a dozen.
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