COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa declared a state of emergency in the country effective from midnight, a government notice said late on Friday.
The decision was taken in the interests of public security, the notice said.
(Reporting by Uditha Jayasinghe and Alasdair Pal; editing by Diane Craft)
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