Sri Lanka floods leave 27 dead

.- At least 27 people and displaced over one million is the balance of the severe flooding and landslides in Sri Lanka. The Disaster Management Centre (DMC, for its acronym in English) said Friday that 12 people were missing after a week of torrential rains that caused flooding and landslides in the eastern, northern and central.

"Water levels have started to decline, but the number of people moving to the state relief camps is increasing," said a spokesman for the DMC, the site reported the news via internet Sinhala ColomboPage. com. He noted that more than one million people have seen their homes flooded, so the vast majority have been mobilized some of the 633 relief camps provided by the Colombo government.

The spokesman added that 367 000 people were being served directly by state agencies in the fields, while others had moved in with friends and family on higher ground. The authorities responsible for emergency sevicios indicated that according to reports Weather rains have fallen across the region, making many roads are now clear, which has enabled the delivery of supplies.

Large areas in the districts of Batticaloa, Ampara and Trincomalee in the east, and Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa, Kandy, Nuwara Eliya, Badulla, Moneragala and Kegalle in the center, were flooded last weekend. The Sri Lankan government organized an emergency gathering of food and other necessities for the victims.

It also mobilized to 28 thousand soldiers to help rescue workers, in addition to sending four helicopters and 28 boats for the supply of drinking water and food to the displaced. Torrential rains began more than a month and continue through February, according to recent reports on the weather conditions in Sri Lanka.

According to the World Meteorological Organization, the La Nina phenomenon is the main cause of flooding in Southeast Asia and Oceania, which has affected Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia, Thailand and Sri Lanka.

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