US EditionRapid Floods Shock Sri Lanka's Survivors
Nearly 200,000 people are in camps and 1.12 million need aid after floods and mudslides caused by Cyclone Ditwah, officials said.
- On November 30, the Irrigation Department said water levels in Colombo had peaked and should begin receding within a day, while President Anura Kumara Dissanayake declared a state of emergency to `build back better` with international aid.
- Heavy showers upstream inundated the banks of the Kelani on Friday night, Cyclone Ditwah carried the rains, and authorities said climate change has increased storm intensity.
- Official data showed 250 of the 340 deaths were in the central hilly tea-growing region, where mudslides buried scores amid record rain exceeding 500 millimetres.
- Classrooms in the three-storey building had been turned into makeshift accommodation, occupied by about 300 people, including 80 children, with residents saying volunteers cooked dry rations for them.
- Delivery driver Dinusha Sanjaya said `I never thought the floods would be this bad` as homes were submerged within an hour and residents described urgent care challenges for elderly relatives.
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Rapid floods shock Sri Lanka's survivors
For villages on the northern edge of Sri Lanka's capital, floods are a familiar ordeal -- but even the hardiest residents were stunned when the Kelani river surged this week.
The pearl of the Indian Ocean, already shaken by an economic crisis, has been devastated by rains of unprecedented intensity. In the capital, relatively spared, many people are organizing themselves to face this new ordeal.
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