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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 9227666" data-attributes="member: 92282">More monsoon rain adds to Sri Lanka's agony Unceasing monsoon rains have exacerbated the crisis facing more than a million people affected by Sri Lanka's deadly floods.             Aid agencies and the government are still  battling to get supplies to large numbers of people cut off by rising  waters in the east and centre of the country. So far at least 27 people  have been killed. Aid groups  warn that landslides are continuing and  that many dams are set to burst.  As the rains continued after a brief lull, the  government reported that more than 20 per cent of the country's rice  crops had been destroyed, creating problems for Sri Lanka's longer-term  food security.     "I would say the situation is  pretty desperate," said Bob McKerrow, head of the International  Committee of the Red Cross mission in Sri Lanka. "The immediate  situation is that there are still people in the highland areas who  remain cut off. We are trying to reach them with helicopters and boats."  In  the capital, Colombo, President Mahinda Rajapakse told reporters that  officials were still assessing the full extend of the damage caused by  the second of Sri Lanka's two annual monsoons. "We are not sparing any  costs," the president said. "The relief operations are going ahead and I  have told the officials to ensure that there are no delays in  distributing aid."  Aid groups said the worst hit  areas were in the Eastern Province, a part of the country where people  have recently been returning to their homes after having been driven  away by decades of civil war.  <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/more-monsoon-rain-adds-to-sri-lankas-agony-2185150.html" target="_blank">independent</a></blockquote>

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