new delhi thousands of protesters in sri lankas commercial capital colombo broke through police barricades and stormed president gotabaya rajapaksas official residence on saturday faced with unprecedented agitation the president on saturday told the speaker that he will be resigning on july 13sri lanka is nearly bankrupt and has suspended repayments of 7 billion in foreign debt due this yearread alsoexplainer why sri lankas economy collapsed and whats nextcolombo sri lankas prime minister said late last month that the island nations debtladen economy had collapsed as it runs out of money to pay for food and fuel short of cash to pay for imports of such necessities and already defaulting on its debt it is seeking help from neighboring indiain 10 points how unprecedented economic crisis pushed sri lankans over the edgenew delhi anger boiled over in sri lanka on saturday as thousands of protesters stormed president gotabaya rajapaksas residence after months of protests it was not clear if rajapaksa was inside the residence in colombo but footage shot on mobile phones showed a large number of people inside theindian govt supportive of sri lanka trying to help it external affairs minister jaishankarunion external affairs minister s jaishankar on sunday said the indian government has always been supportive of sri lanka and it was trying to help the neighbouring country through its present economic crisis and made it clear that there was no refugee crisis right now44000 mt urea under indias credit line set to arrive in colomboindian high commissioner to sri lanka gopal baglay met with sri lankas agriculture minister mahinda amaraweera and informed him about the arrival of over 44000 mt of urea supplied under a credit line extended by new delhi to colombo taking to twitter the indian high commissioner to sri lankasri lankan police arrest three persons for setting fire to pm wickremesinghes private residencea group of irate protesters on saturday entered wickremesinghes private residence at cambridge place in colombo and set it on fire amid a massive public protest in the country over the unprecedented economic crisisits foreign reserves are almost wiped out and it is unable to import food fuel cooking gas and medicinehere are the latest developmentsindia stands with sri lankathe ministry of external affairs on sunday said that india stands with the people of sri lanka as they seek to realise their aspirations for prosperity and progress through democratic means and values established institutions and constitutional frameworkit said that this year india has extended an unprecedented support of over 38 billion for ameliorating the serious economic situation in sri lanka we continue to follow closely the recent developments in sri lanka the ministry statedmissing president back in action orders gas distributionembattled president gotabaya rajapaksa whose location is still unknown since the protesters overran both his office and the official residence has ordered officials to ensure the smooth distribution of cooking gas after the fuelstarved country received 3700 metric tonnes of lp gas his office said on sunday in recent months people