Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa flees the country
by Hannah Ellis-Petersen and agency from World news | The Guardian on (#61ADP)
Rajapaksa, 73, and his wife boarded a special air force flight bound for the Maldives, local officials said
Sri Lanka's embattled president Gotabaya Rajapaksa has flown out of the country, heading to the neighbouring Maldives, according to local officials.
The 73-year-old leader, his wife and a bodyguard were among four passengers on board an Antonov-32 Sri Lankan military aircraft which took off from Colombo's international airport on Tuesday, immigration officials told Agence France-Presse.
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