Sri Lanka Prime Minister house set on fire: police

Ranil Wickremesinghe

Sri Lanka's ousted Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe arrives at the parliament in Colombo on November 30, 2018. PHOTO | AFP

Sri Lankan protesters set the prime minister's private home on fire, hours after chasing the president from his residence, as months of frustration over an unprecedented economic crisis boiled over on Saturday.

Hundreds of thousands of people massed in the capital Colombo through the morning to demand the government take responsibility for mismanaging the nation's finances, and for months of crippling food and fuel shortages.