Sri Lanka Crisis: President Rajapaksa flees to Maldives with wife, bodyguards; was to step down today

Sri Lanka crisis: President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country with his wife and two bodyguards in the wee hours of Wednesday. He took a Sri Lankan Air Force plane bound for the city of Male, the capital of the Maldives, according to an immigration official who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

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