Recent flooding in Sri Lanka has claimed lives of 24 people and left 8 others missing, Dailymirror has written quoting the National Disaster Management Centre.
The floods have also destroyed 4,593 houses and damaged further 14,649 houses. According to the Daily News, eight bodies have been recovered in the Rilpola Haliela landslide affected area in Badulla and another seven persons are still missing.
Disaster Management Centre under Ministry of disaster Management and Asia Pacific Alliance Disaster Management in Srilanka has send relief to the flood victims in Chilaw, Kandy, Matale and Mahiyangana on 28th of December 2014, Sri lanka disaster management centre said.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa has instructed officials to reconstruct the houses destroyed by landslides and flooding in Sri Lanka with the assistance of Army personnel.
Severe flooding in Southeast Asia have affected Sri Lanka, southern Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia in recent days. The worst flooding in Malaysia in more than a decade has claimed lives of at least 10 people. Malaysia has been even experiencing the biggest number of flood evacuees in the nation's history
Original post: Natural Disasters List December 28, 2014
Comments
Post a Comment
Your feedback is important to us!
We invite all our readers to share with us their views about this natural disaster post.
Disclaimer: Comments posted below are from readers. In no way do they represent the view of Disaster-Report.com. This is a public forum.
Below views may be monitored for inappropriate content. Please note that your email address will NOT appear on the site. Read our privacy policy here.
Disaster Report reports recent natural disaster news 24 hours a day. A daily natural disasters list (published everyday) includes details of all (almost) natural disasters occurred worldwide. Click for recent natural disasters list.