Sri Lanka Monsoon Floods Kill Seven People

Sri Lanka Monsoon Floods Kill Seven People

Houses are seen flooded on the outskirts of Colombo, Sri Lanka, on June 3, 2024. Sri Lanka's Disaster Management Center (DMC) issued a major flood alert in the outskirts of capital Colombo and several other areas of the island as heavy rains lashed across the country on Sunday. The Irrigation Department said that due to heavy rains since the early hours of Sunday, water levels in the main Kelani River on the outskirts of Colombo and the Gin River in the south of Sri Lanka had reached spill levels. Sri Lanka's State Minister of Defense Premitha Bandara Tennakoon said Monday that 12 people have been killed and over 87,000 people affected by the recent floods in the South Asian country. Photo by Ajith Perera/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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