IUSF protest: Five hospitalized

Five university students were admitted to General Hospital, Colombo during a protest at Kollupitiya Junction staged by the Inter University Students’ Federation (IUSF) against the controversial private medical campus South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM) in Malabe.

Police fired tear gas and used water cannons, on multiple occasions, to disperse the protest. (Piyumi Fonseka)