Sri Lanka Economic Crisis: How Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled to Maldives ? | ABP News

After escaping to Maldives due to an uprising triggered by economic collapse, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is now waiting to travel to Singapore, reported news agency ANI.  Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, who is now an acting president, has declared a state of emergency and a curfew in the Western province has been imposed amid rising protests.

Rajapaksa has not departed for Singapore on the scheduled Singapore Airlines flight from Male to Singapore, the news agency quoted Daily Mirror report.