Police fire tear gas at anti-government protesters in Sri Lanka

Protesters shout anti- government slogans during a march in Colombo, Sri Lanka (Amitha Thennakoon/AP)

Sri Lankan police have fired tear gas at protesters demanding that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his government resign over the nation’s worst economic crisis in recent memory.

Thousands of protesters carrying Sri Lankan flags rode on the relatively few vehicles on the roads due to an acute fuel shortage, while others were on bicycles and many walked to protest sites in the capital Colombo from the suburbs after police lifted an overnight curfew.