A 53-year-old man, who was protesting exterior the personal residence of Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa over the lengthy energy cuts within the nation because of the ongoing financial disaster, bought electrocuted after he climbed an electrical energy pole, police stated on Sunday.
The incident occurred on Sunday afternoon after the person in an inebriated situation climbed the electrical energy pole to protest the continuing lengthy energy cuts within the nation and bought electrocuted.
“He had climbed an electricity pole to protest when got electrocuted,” a senior police officer stated.
Sri Lanka is presently experiencing its worst financial disaster in historical past. With lengthy traces for gasoline, cooking fuel, necessities in brief provide and lengthy hours of energy cuts the general public have been struggling for weeks
On Sunday, the police additionally arrested over 600 individuals in Sri Lanka’s Western Province for violating a 36-hour nationwide curfew and making an attempt to stage an anti-government rally to protest the nation’s worst financial disaster.
The Sri Lankan authorities on Saturday imposed a 36-hour curfew as a nationwide public emergency has been enforced forward of a deliberate anti-government rally over the worst financial disaster within the island nation that has hit the widespread man badly.
The nation-wide curfew has been imposed with impact from 6 pm Saturday to six am Monday (April 4), the knowledge division stated.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
