Sunday 28 October 2018

*Sri Lanka Crisis 🏼Worsens as Ex-Minister Arjuna Ranatunga's Guard Opens Fire, Wounding 3*

The security guard of a minister in the sacked Sri Lankan government opened fire at an office on Sunday wounding three people, worsening a constitutional crisis in the island nation days after the president ousted the prime minister and appointed a new one.

Police said the guard began shooting as Arjuna Ranatunga, petroleum minister in the cabinet of former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, tried to enter his office at the state-run Ceylon Petroleum Corp.

Wickremesinghe maintains he is still prime minister. The guard had been arrested and an investigation has been launched.

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