Sri Lanka's Speaker today ordered authorities to investigate and present a report on last week's violent scenes in parliament, the Daily Mirror reported.
Video footage from parliamentary sittings showed fist-fights, objects being thrown at fellow MPs and police officers, including chilli water, as well as an MP wielding a knife and another slapping a police officer.
The Speaker, Karu Jayasuriya told MPs that "it was the duty of all MPs to avoid the repetition of such ugly scenes in the future."
Violence broke out after Mahinda Rajapaksa rejected the no-confidence motion levelled against him and assumed the bench of the Prime Minister in parliament.
The parliamentary mace was removed and the Speaker was mobbed before being forced to step out.
