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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 9381123" data-attributes="member: 92282">Sri Lanka's monsoon rains have spread to more villages and towns,  leaving at least 14 people dead and more than one million with flooded  homes, according to officials.The number of people in state-run  shelters rose to 236,000 by Saturday evening, the Disaster Management  Centre (DMC) in Colombo said, adding that 1,053,000 people had had their  homes inundated.Most of the flood victims had moved in with friends and relatives living on higher ground, officials said.Police figures showed that at least 14 people had been killed in flood-related incidents in the past week.The  DMC said that roads and fields were submerged across the east, centre  and north of the island -- areas which had already been badly hit by an  earlier wave of monsoon rains last month.Then, 43 people were killed and the number of people driven from their homes also passed one million.The  latest flooding came after the United Nations issued an appeal for 51  million dollars in emergency aid to help people affected by last month's  floods.<a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jUyiCOifmhUJrilvXe-RHwWDvCKQ?docId=CNG.735e6613aada0a9b07e96e8723b84324.761" target="_blank">AFP</a></blockquote>

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