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Live Updates: Sri Lanka’s President Rajapaksa Flees to the Maldives

Live Updates: Sri Lanka’s President Rajapaksa Flees to the Maldives

Credit…Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — President Gotabaya Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka fled the country on Wednesday, according to four officials, after months of demonstrations demanding that he leave office culminated with protesters storming his official residence in Colombo, the capital.

Mr. Rajapaksa left on an Air Force plane to the Maldives at about 2 a.m. local time, said Colonel Nalin Herath, a spokesman…


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