The President of Sri Lanka left the country on a military plane

Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, the president of Sri Lanka, has left the nation.

Rajapaksa arrived in Male, the capital of the Maldives, on a military plane at 3 am local time on Wednesday after the country could not contain the protests due to the economic crisis. Family control in Sri Lanka ended when Rajapaksa left the nation. He’s going to resign today, he says. The previous finance minister Basil Rajapaksa, Rajapaksa’s brother, has also gone, according to the BBC.

Source: Nepal Television