Sri Lanka's embattled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, his wife and his bodyguard fly out of the protest-hit country to Maldives in a military plane, officials say
Rajapaksa's youngest brother Basil, who resigned in April as finance minister, missed his own Emirates flight to Dubai early on Tuesday after a tense standoff with the airport staff.
"There were some other passengers who protested against Basil boarding their flight," an airport official told AFP. Basil had to obtain a new US passport after leaving his suitcase behind at the presidential palace when the Rajapaksas beat a hasty retreat to avoid mobs on Saturday, a diplomatic source said.
There was no official word from the president's office about his whereabouts, but he remained commander-in-chief of the armed forces with military resources at his disposal.
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