COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled his official residence on Saturday shortly before protesters, angered by an unprecedented economic crisis, overran the compound and stormed inside.
The immediate whereabouts of the president, who has rebuffed repeated demands for his resignation, are not known. But Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe called an emergency meeting of political party leaders, at which he said he intended to step down and make way for a new unity government.
