Sri Lankan police on Sunday arrested three people for setting Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's private residence on fire a day earlier, amidst massive anti-government protests. A group of irate protesters on Saturday entered Wickremesinghe's private residence at Cambridge Place here and set it on fire amid a massive public protest in the country over the unprecedented economic crisis.

The incident came hours after Wickremesinghe offered to resign to make way for an all-party government. The incident came hours after Wickremesinghe offered to resign to make way for an all-party government.

Earlier in the day, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled his official residence shortly before protesters overran the compound and stormed his nearby office.

After storming and taking over the president's house, Protesters have now occupied the official residence of the prime minister of Sri Lanka Ranil Wickremesinghe's "Temple Tree' and are camping there and have started cooking food inside the premises in Colombo. The protesters were also seen playing carrom, lying leisurely, and loitering on the premises of prime minister Wickremesinghe's residence.

We the protesters have started cooking, we are inside the PM's house. We have struggled for the resignation of PM Wickremesinghe & President Rajapaksa. We will only leave the premises when they will resign," a protestor said. Thousands of protesters stormed Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s official residence in the capital of Colombo, forcing him to flee to an unknown location. Protesters shouted, "Gota go home" and demanded his resignation. Protesters also set fire to prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's private residence. Gotabaya will resign from the presidency on July 13 while Ranil Wickremesinghe stepped down as Sri Lanka's prime minister on Saturday, July 10.