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Floods affect 13,000 families

Mohammed NAALIR

Due to the prevailing rainy weather nearly 13,000 families numbering 43,000 persons from Kalutara, Puttalam, Galle, Matara, Gampaha and Matara Districts have been affected, Director General of Disaster Management Centre Gamini Hettiarachchi said yesterday.

He said that while one death was reported 42 houses were partly damaged and four houses fully damaged. Nearly 1,000 families numbering 4278 persons have been housed in welfare camps. Some are staying with their relatives. Water levels in flooded areas are decreasing rapidly and no sooner the situation come back to normal they too will be able to return to their residences.

Addressing the media Acting Disaster Management Minister and Urban Development Minister Rohana Kumara Dissanayake said that the relevant District Secretaries have been instructed to take immediate relief measures and precautionary moves to protect the people from being affected. They have also been allocated enough funds.

Addressing the media National Building Research Organisation Chairman R.M.D.K. Bandara said that minor landslides have been reported from certain areas of the affected districts.

Mapping of areas frequently subjected to landslides and floods have been commenced. Ten Districts have been identified as landslide and flood threat prevailing areas.

 

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