Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa sent his resignation to Parliament Speaker Mahidna Abiwardana, the sources said, citing sources. Sources said that “the outgoing president of Sri Lanka has arrived in Singapore.”

A Malé airport official told AFP that “the Sri Lankan president left the Maldives on a Saudi Airlines plane bound for Singapore” a day after he fled Colombo for the atoll.

The official indicated that Rajapaksa, his wife Yuma and two of their bodyguards were taken to the plane minutes before departure from Velana International Airport in Male, the capital of the Maldives.

Anti-government protesters in Sri Lanka who stormed the home of President Gotabai Rajapaksa over the weekend announced they would leave the stormed presidential buildings. In this regard, the representative of the demonstrators said: “We will immediately withdraw peacefully from the presidential palace, the presidential secretariat and the prime minister’s office, but we will continue our struggle.”