Floods in Sri Lanka

Image: Sri Lanka floods. Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran/ TGTE. The devastating floods and landslides in southern Sri Lanka have extracted a heavy toll of life and property causing immense suffering for thousands. According to latest figures 164 have died, 104 are still missing and more than 100,000 people have been dislocated. The Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam […]

At least 126 people have been killed and nearly 500,000 displaced in Sri Lanka following flooding and mudslides triggered by monsoon rains, the government says. A further 97 people are still missing, a spokesman said. Military boats and helicopters have been sent to help rescue operations. The flooding is believed to be the worst since […]

( Floods in Kilnochchi: Tamil Guardian Photo) Press release: EU steps up assistance to victims of Tropical Storm Roanu in Sri Lanka. Colombo, 22 June 2016 – The European Commission is providing a further € 500 000 (LKR 81 640 000) in humanitarian funding to Sri Lanka to bring emergency assistance to communities affected by […]

( Floods in Kilinochchi; Tamil Guardian Image) by Easwaran Rutnam. Several families affected by the recent floods in Kilinochchi are looking at ways to survive after losing their crops. Jaffna based civil society said that most families in Kilinochchi depend on their paddy to earn a living. However the heavy rain flooded the paddy fields […]

Sri Lanka’s Disaster Management Centre (DMC), which should be in the forefront of the current emergency response with floods and storms ravaging the country, is facing a crisis of its own. Its “disaster emergency hotline 117 (as stated in the website)” doesn’t work. There is no answer, zero sound when one calls this number as […]

A Special Presidential Task Force has been stablished under the instructions of the President to manage the current disaster situation in the country. This Task Force will cover all aspects of the disaster management and will be headed by the President’s Secretary P.B. Abeykoon, reports Presidential Media Unit. The first meeting of the Task Force […]

by Amal Jayasinghe/AFP. Desperate Sri Lankans clambered onto rubber dinghies and makeshift rafts Friday to escape monster floods in the capital Colombo as officials said half a million people had fled their homes across the island.  The heaviest rains in a quarter of a century have pounded Sri Lanka since last weekend, triggering huge landslides […]

( Image: CNN) by Richard Davies in Asia, News. An area of low pressure above Sri Lanka has caused heavy rainfall across the country since 14 May 2016. Some locations saw over 350 mm (13.77 inches) of rain fall in 24 hours. Floods and landslides have caused havoc in as many as 19 districts of […]