Sri Lanka's embattled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa flew out of the country early Wednesday.
* Gotabaya Rajapaksa had promised at the weekend to resign on Wednesday
* He, his wife and a bodyguard were among four passengers on board an Antonov-32 military aircraft which took off for the Maldives, immigration sources say
* 'Their passports were stamped and they boarded the special air force flight,' an immigration official involved in the process said
Sri Lanka's embattled president flew out of his country early Wednesday, in a probable prelude to his resignation after months of widespread protests over the island nation's worst-ever economic crisis.
Gotabaya Rajapaksa had promised at the weekend to resign on Wednesday and clear the way for a 'peaceful transition of power', after fleeing his official residence in Colombo just before tens of thousands of protesters overran it.
As president, Rajapaksa enjoys immunity from arrest, and he is believed to have wanted to go abroad before stepping down to avoid the possibility of being detained.
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