Floods in Sri Lanka last week made more than a million displaced in the Indian Ocean island said Thursday the national center for disaster management. "Some 533,000 people were displaced in the Batticaloa district alone we have installed 225 camps to accommodate them," said a spokesman for the center, adding that 1.066 million people in total had to leave their flooded homes.More than 250,000 people found refuge in government camps while others have moved temporarily relocated on their own, "he added. Intense monsoon rains have fallen in recent days, especially in eastern and central regions, causing landslides and rising sea levels. Sri Lanka, tropical island of 20 million people southeast of India, is scanned by two seasons of the monsoon between May and September and December to February.
The country relies on these seasonal rains for irrigation and electric power dams. In November 2010, the army had been deployed to assist thousands of flood victims in the capital, Colombo. The authorities had then estimated that 300,000 people could stay in their damaged homes.
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