Colombo: Police have arrested three persons in connection with the fire at the private residence of Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and the Crime Investigation Department (CID) has taken over the responsibility of investigating the incident. According to media reports Sri Lankan police have arrested three people on Sunday in connection with the fire that broke out on Saturday in the prime minister’s private residence during anti-government protests. In a video released on Twitter by local media, it was damaged due to the fire.

In the video, one can see the prime minister’s private residence damaged due to the fire.

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Sacramento, California: The initial results of the primary elections in California are out today. The current governor of California state Gavin Newsom has once again won the election. He got 17 lakh 47 thousand 490 votes. The second-largest candidate, Jenny Ray Lee Roux of the Republicans, managed to get only 1,000, 3,257 votes.

Gavin Newsom received 60 percent of the total votes, while his rival Republican candidate secured only 3.5 percent of the total votes. Lieutenant Governor Eleney Konalakis also won with 58 per cent of the total votes, while her rival, Angela Jacob of the Republican Party, won only 18 per cent. Secretary of State’s Democrat Party’s Dr. Sherrelli Weber won with 63 per cent of the vote, while her opponent, Rob Barnoski of the Republican Party, managed to get only 18 per cent.

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