Four children drowned in Sri Lanka as storm heads to India
Thursday, 28 November 2024 () Colombo (AFP) Nov 28, 2024
Sri Lankan rescue teams said Thursday they had recovered four drowned children killed in a flash flood, with four other people missing, after torrential rains from a powerful but slow-moving storm now heading towards India. More than 250,000 people in Sri Lanka have been forced to flee after their homes were flooded. Indian weather officials said there was a "possibility" that the deep d
Floods in central Sri Lanka's Polunnaruwa district has forced some 335,155 people to seek temporary shelter in public buildings after their homes were flooded, according to Colombo's Disaster Management Centre (DMC). Rescuers recovered the bodies of six children, taking the number of those killed in...
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Thursday, 28 November 2024 ()
Colombo (AFP) Nov 28, 2024
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