Sri Lanka’s Gotabaya Rajapaksa returns weeks after fleeing island

Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled Sri Lanka amid massive protests over the country's worst economic crisis in decades [File: Andy Buchanan/AP Photo]

Sri Lanka’s deposed President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has returned home weeks after fleeing the crisis-hit country, officials said.

The 73-year-old former leader landed in the capital, Colombo, on a Singapore Airlines flight from Thailand in the early hours of Saturday, local media reports said.