Krishan Francis, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

Protesters, one carrying national flag, storm the Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's office, demanding he resign after president Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country amid economic crisis in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, July 13, 2022. Rajapaksa fled on a military jet on Wednesday after angry protesters seized his home and office, and appointed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as acting president while he is overseas. Wickremesinghe quickly declared a nationwide...

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Sri Lanka’s president flees, ire turns to PM

by Krishan Francis Associated Press, and Krutika Pathi Associated PressJuly 13, 2022

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka’s president fled the country Wednesday, plunging a nation already reeling from economic chaos into more political turmoil. Protesters demanding a change in leadership then trained their ire on the prime minister and…

People throng President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's official residence three days after it was stormed by anti government protesters in Colombo in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, July 12, 2022. A political vacuum continues in Sri Lanka with opposition leaders yet to agree on who should replace its roundly rejected leaders, whose residences are occupied by protesters angry over the country's deep economic woes. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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Sri Lanka’s president flees country amid economic crisis

by Krishan Francis Associated PressJuly 12, 2022

Protesters swim as onlookers wait at a swimming pool in president's official residence a day after it was stormed in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sunday, July 10, 2022. Sri Lanka’s opposition political parties will meet Sunday to agree on a new government a day after the country’s president and prime minister offered to resign in the country’s most chaotic day in months of political turmoil, with protesters storming both officials’ homes and setting fire to one of the buildings in a rage...

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Sri Lanka’s opposition meets to name new government amid turmoil

by Krishan Francis Associated PressJuly 10, 2022

Women wait in a queue to buy kerosene in in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, June 11, 2022. Sri Lanka's economic crisis, the worst in its history, has completely recast the lives of the country's once galloping middle class. For many families that never had to think twice about fuel or food, the effects have been instant and painful, derailing years of progress toward lifestyles aspired to across South Asia. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

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Sri Lankan PM says economy ‘has collapsed’

by Krishan Francis Associated PressJune 22, 2022

Anti-government protesters help a fellow protester who was beaten up by government supporters during clashes in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday.

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Sri Lanka’s PM resigns after weeks of protests

by Krishan Francis Associated Press, Bharatha Mallawarachi Associated Press, and Krutika Pathi Associated PressMay 9, 2022

A Sri Lankan police officer patrols outside a mosque in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday.

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Sri Lanka shakes up top security posts after deadly bombings

by Krishan Francis Associated PressApril 25, 2019

Nilanga Anthony, center, mourns the death of his 7-year-old nephew, Dhulodh Anthony, a victim of Easter Sunday bomb blast, during the burial at Methodist cemetery in Negombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday.

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As Sri Lanka mourns, Islamic State says it carried out Easter bombings

by Emily Schmall Associated Press, and Krishan Francis Associated PressApril 23, 2019

Relatives place flowers after the burial Monday of three victims of the same family, who died in a bomb blast Easter Sunday at St. Sebastian Church in Negombo, Sri Lanka.

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Sri Lanka military gets special powers after deadly bombings

by Bharatha Mallawarachi Associated Press, and Krishan Francis Associated PressApril 22, 2019

Relatives of a blast victim grieve outside a morgue in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sunday, April 21, 2019. More than hundred were killed and hundreds more hospitalized with injuries from eight blasts that rocked churches and hotels in and just outside of Sri Lanka's capital on Easter Sunday, officials said, the worst violence to hit the South Asian country since its civil war ended a decade ago. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

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Explosions kill at least 207 in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday

by Bharatha Mallawarachi Associated Press, and Krishan Francis Associated PressApril 21, 2019

Bloodstains are seen on the wall and on a Jesus Christ statue at St. Sebastian's Church after blast in Negombo, north of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sunday.

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Bombings in Sri Lanka kill more than 200

by Bharatha Mallawarachi Associated Press, and Krishan Francis Associated PressApril 21, 2019