Gotabaya Rajapaksa to return to Sri Lanka on August 24: report

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Former Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa (center) walks to a waiting vehicle outside the Don Mueang airport in Bangkok, Thailand, August 11, 2022. /CFP

Sri Lanka's former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will return to the country on August 24, Sri Lankan local media News First reported Wednesday.

Rajapaksa fled to Singapore on July 14 following unprecedented unrest caused by Sri Lanka's worst economic crisis in seven decades.

He then arrived in Thailand on August 11 seeking temporary shelter in a second Southeast Asian country.

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