President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has fled Sri Lanka in a protection force jet, amid mass protests over the island’s financial crisis.
The country’s air force confirmed the 73-year-feeble flew to the Maldives alongside with his partner and two safety officers.
The president has appointed Top Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as performing president.
Mr Wickremesinghe declared a convey of emergency and urged the protection force to revive stammer, as protesters stormed his location of job and demanded that he also resign.
Sri Lanka goes via its worst financial crisis for decades with rampant inflation and meals shortages.
Huw Edwards items BBC Data at Ten reporting by Rajini Vaidyanathan in Colombo and diplomatic correspondent James Landale.
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