NEW DELHI, July 13. /TASS/. Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has left the country, the AFP news agency reported citing officials.

According to the report, the president left the country aboard an An-32 plane. He is accompanied by his wife and a bodyguard. The plance is headed towards the Maldives.

The president of Sri Lanka earlier wrote a resignation letter, dated July 13. According to Daily Mirror, the document has been handed over to a high-ranking governmental official, who is to deliver it to Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena. The speaker is to make an official announcement about Rajapaksa’s resignation on Wednesday.