Sri Lanka’s ousted president returns home after fleeing

Gotabaya Rajapaksa (Eranga Jayawardena/AP)

Sri Lanka’s former president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled the country in July after tens of thousands of protesters stormed his home and office in protest at the country’s economic crisis, has returned to the country after seven weeks.

Rajapaksa flew into Colombo’s Bandaranaike international airport on Friday from Bangkok via Singapore.