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The outgoing Sri Lankan president has fled the country ahead of his resignation as protests against his government grow.
Gotabaya Rajapaksa arrived in the Maldives on Wednesday where he was received by senior government officials.
Many in Sri Lanka blame him for the crippling sovereign debt that's resulted in the country's worst economic crisis in the past seven decades.
Ishan Garg reports.
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