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Sri Lanka president flies to Singapore from Maldives

/ 04:37 PM July 14, 2022

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MALÉ, Maldives — Sri Lanka’s president left the Maldives Thursday aboard a Saudia airline plane bound for Singapore, an airport official told AFP, a day after he escaped to the atoll nation.

Gotabaya Rajapaksa, his wife Ioma and their two bodyguards were escorted to the aircraft minutes before it took off from Velana International airport in Male, the official said.

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