COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as the country’s acting president on Friday, a government official said.
Wickremesinghe had already taken on the role after former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country on Wednesday following months of anti-government protests.
(Reporting by Waruna Karunatilake in Colombo; Writing by Alasdair Pal; Editing by Hugh Lawson)
