Local TV showed protesters toppling buses in the street and pushing vehicles into water during a day of chaos and violence in the Sri Lankan commercial capital Colombo on Monday.

Prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned to make way for a unity government that would try to find a way out of the country's worst economic crisis in history.

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