Sri Lanka declared state of emergency on Friday, after increasing unrest.

Another night of protests rocked Colombo, as Sri Lankans, angry at President President Gotabaya Rajapaksa for the country’s unprecedented economic crisis, stormed the streets. 

Some set fire to a bus on the road to the president’s residence overnight Thursday. 

A shortage of foreign currency has made Sri Lanka unable to import fuel. Street lights and rolling power cuts for up to 13 hours at a time are leaving Sri Lankans in the dark. 

Basic staples are becoming scarce amid the most serious economic downturn since Sri Lanka’s independence in 1948.

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