State-owned TV goes off air in Sri Lanka as protesters storm building after president flees abroad (photos)

Sri Lanka's state-owned TV channel Rupavahini had suspend its broadcast on Wednesday, July 13, after protesters raged the structure, in the midst of the extending political unrest and economic crisis in the country.

The Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) said that its engineers have suspended their lives and recorded broadcasts as the corporation premises are being encircled by dissidents.

SLRC official said that a group of protestors who had entered the premises had requested that they run just news related with 'anti government fights' and diversion programs, Newswire Lanka revealed.

The dissenters had been given exactly 15 minutes to covey their side of the story on to the watchers, after which the channel suspended transmission.

Likewise, a second Sri Lankan state TV slot went off air, under an hour after Rupavahini suspended its tasks.

In the interim, the anti - government dissidents, who are requesting the acquiescence of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, have torn clear a path for the PM office.

The Police fired poisonous gas on dissenters who got through a blockade and raged the prime minister's office.

Prime Minister Wickremesinghe has previously said he was able to leave and clear a path for an all-party government to dominate.

The dissidents, who stormed the three primary structures in the capital, the President's House, the presidential secretariat and the prime minister's true home, Temple Trees on Saturday, requesting the abdication of President Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Wickremesinghe, are as yet possessing them.

Sri Lankan President, Gotabaya Rajapaksa escaped the country on Wednesday in the midst of boundless fights over his treatment of the nation'sworst economic crisis since independence in 1948.

Rajapaksa, his better half and two guardians flew on a Sri Lankan Air Force plane to Male, the capital of the Maldives, the Sri Lankan Air Force affirmed in a proclamation on Wednesday July 13.

Sri Lanka, a nation of 22 million individuals is suffereing a financial strife, the worst in seventy years, leaving millions battling to purchase food, medication, fuel and different fundamentals.