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Sri Lanka's ousted president believed heading to Thailand

Protesters shout slogans during a march in Colombo on Tuesday, one month after a massive protest forced then Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country and step down. (Reuters photo)

Sri Lanka's ousted president Gotabaya Rajapaksa is expected to arrive in Thailand on Thursday, seeking temporary shelter in a second Southeast Asian country after fleeing his island nation last month amid mass protests, two sources said.

Rajapaksa fled to Singapore on July 14, via the Maldives, following unprecedented unrest triggered by Sri Lanka's worst economic crisis in seven decades and days after thousands of protesters stormed the president's official residence and office.

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