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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Voting under way in first sri lanka election since economic collapse - Caught on Camera

An election official carrying a ballot box walks at a counting centre in Colombo, Sri Lanka [Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters]

An overnight curfew has been imposed across Sri Lanka after voting ended in the presidential election as the island nation seeks to recover from an unprecedented economic crisis that triggered mass protests and forced then-President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee.

Police announced the eight-hour curfew in “view of the safety of the public”, shortly after the independent Election Commission said Saturday’s poll was the most peaceful in the country’s electoral history.

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