Gotabaya Rajapaksa returns home, gets special security, house

Sri Lanka's former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has been given special security and a state bungalow for accommodation on his return here from Thailand where he fled amid months-long mass protests over the country's worst economic crisis, officials said on Saturday.

Rajapaksa, 73, was accorded a warm welcome as he returned to Colombo from Thailand amid tight security on late Friday. He was festooned with flowers by a welcoming party of ministers .