Sri Lanka president flees as protesters storm palace

- Thousands of protesters have stormed the residence of Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in Colombo
- Police fired shots in the air but could not stop crowds from overrunning the residence
- The country's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesighe has agreed to resign, his office says, to make way for an all-party government
- There have been months of protests over his handling of the worst economic crisis in Sri Lanka’s history
- The country has run out of foreign currency and is struggling to import basics like fuel, food and medicine
- Many blame the Rajapaksa family, in power for years, for mismanaging the economy and borrowing heavily from China