Sri Lanka PM quits as violence kills 5, injures 180

COLOMBO - Violence raged across Sri Lanka late into the night on Monday, with five people dead and some 180 injured as prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa quit after weeks of protests.

"We were hit, the media were hit, women and children were hit," one witness said, asking not to be named, as dozens of people were admitted to hospital. Retaliatory attacks by government opponents were reported across the island of 22 million people even after police declared an indefinite curfew. Witnesses saw several tear gas cannisters hit the US embassy compound across from the Temple Trees residence, a key symbol of state power in the South Asian island.

Buses and trucks used by government loyalists to bring people to the capital earlier in the day were also targeted. Crowds also attacked a museum devoted to the Rajapaksas in the family's ancestral village in the deep south of the island, razing it to the ground, police said.A hotel in Negombo owned by a close associate of Mahinda Rajapaksa's children was set ablaze, along with a Lamborghini car parked inside. There were no casualties among foreign guests, police said.

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