Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa emailed a letter of resignation to Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena on Thursday, a spokesperson of the Speaker said, hours after fleeing to Singapore following mass protests over an economic meltdown. <br /> <br />The announcement triggered jubilation in the commercial capital Colombo where protesters massed outside the presidential secretariat, defying a city-wide curfew. <br /> <br />Crowds set off firecrackers, shouted slogans and danced ecstatically at the Gota Go Gama protest site, named mockingly after Rajapaksa's first name. Here's the full report.
