Colombo: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today flew into the Sri Lankan capital in the early hours for a historic visit during which he is expected to hold talks with the country's top leadership.

Modi arrived in Colombo for a two-day visit at 5.25 A.M. after an overnight journey from Port Louis in Mauritius in a special Air India plane. Sri Lanka is the final stop of his three-nation tour of Indian Ocean island nations that took him to Seychelles and Mauritius.