Sri Lanka Flood Pictures

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Sri Lankans affected by the floods take refuge in a makeshift camp in the eastern Sri Lankan town of Batticaloa on January 14, 2011.

Flood-affected Sri Lankan children eat a meal at a relief camp in the eastern town of Batticaloa on January 14, 2011.

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One million people hit by severe floods in Sri Lanka

Severe flooding in Sri Lanka has disrupted the lives of around one million people and forced hundreds of thousands to seek refuge in relief camps, aid workers say.
The floods – which are affecting five times more people than Australia’s – have been triggered by continuous rains since Dec. 26, causing streams and dams to overflow mainly in eastern and central parts of the Indian Ocean island.

At least 18 people have also been killed, seven of whom died in a landslide. Aid workers fear the death toll could rise further with some areas remaining inaccessible and forecasts of no let-up in the torrential rains.

“Some areas are difficult to access and people are trapped there. Rivers are overflowing, dams breaking and the main roads can't be used,” said Father George Sigamoney, secretary general of Caritas in Sri Lanka.

Fourteen of the island’s 25 districts have been hit, with the worst-affected districts being Batticaloa, Ampara and Trincomalee on the eastern coast, where 200,000 people have been uprooted from their inundated villages, most of them fleeing to government relief shelters such as schools.​

 

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UNICEF supplies arrive in flood-affected eastern part of Sri Lanka


A second consignment of UNICEF supplies arrived in the flood-affected eastern part of Sri Lanka today. These supplies are 4,961 hygiene kits (washing kits to last a family of five a month including towels, soap, toothpaste, washing powder), 10,000 plastic buckets, 15,000 sleeping mats, and 150 community cooking pots (150 litre capacity).

This second consignment of goods follows seven truck-loads of supplies sent by UNICEF to assist the one million people affected by the massive flooding. The first consignment comprised: 50 water tanks (1,000 litres each), water tablets able to purify two million litres of water, 7,000 tarpaulins, chlorine bleaching powder for equipment sterilising, 7,000 sleeping mats, 3,000 buckets, 30,000 bars of soap and cooking pots.

UNICEF's consignments have been handed over to local government officials who are working with the Sri Lankan military in order to distribute badly-needed goods to the displaced. The Batticaloa and Ampara districts are particularly badly hit.
Government reports state 27 people have been killed, 47 injured and more than 367,000 displaced by the floods.

No rain fell yesterday (Thursday, January 13) but rain is falling again today (Friday, Jan14).

These consignments of UNICEF support are part of a wider Government and UN effort to support the affected communities. As most roads are impassable by vehicle, the Sri Lankan military is using boats to deliver much-needed aid. The UN is preparing to launch an emergency fund-raising appeal.

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UN Sri Lanka floods appeal launched

The United Nations said it will launch an emergency appeal for funds to help those affected by floods that have ravaged Sri Lanka's east for days.

With vast rice fields that were ready for harvesting inundated, many have had their livelihoods disrupted.

UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator Neil Buhne said in a statement that the United Nations will call for millions of dollars in aid to help replant the fields and compensate those who have lost money due to the floods.

As floodwaters slowly receded in the worst-hit Eastern Province, most people remain in temporary shelters.

However, some in Karaithivu village in eastern Ampara district came out for rituals marking the ethnic Tamils' traditional harvest festival.

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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.

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Disease threat for Sri Lanka flood victims

By Mel Gunasekera

The threat of disease loomed Saturday over the million-plus victims of floods in Sri Lanka that have left nearly 40 people dead and devastated farmland in the island's rice bowl.

Disaster Management Minister Mahinda Amaraweera said medical units had been rushed to the central and eastern regions, where hundreds of thousands have been forced to take shelter in cramped, state-run relief camps.

"We are very conscious of the fact that there can be water-borne diseases and we brought medical staff from other areas to help out," Amaraweera told AFP. "There are no reports of diarrhoea, but we are taking precautions."

More than one million people were initially displaced in the flooding triggered by unusually heavy monsoon rains in the past week.

The state Disaster Management Centre said 37 people had been officially confirmed dead, with another 12 still missing.

Several international aid agencies along with the European Union and the governments of India and the US have helped with emergency supplies, officials said.

UN agencies in Colombo said that providing relief for those in the worst-affected areas was a serious challenge, and that they would shortly issue an international appeal for funding.

"A lot of work needs to be done after the water goes down, but first we have to assist people in welfare centres, to make sure they get adequate food, medicines and clean drinking water," UNICEF spokesman Mervyn Fletcher said.

Fletcher said the situation has shown a marked improvement in the past 24 hours with some families being ferried back to their villages to assess damage to homes and property

The UN children's agency was helping to purify millions of litres of drinking water for distribution in the affected regions.

Amaraweera said initial surveys showed that vast tracts of farmland had been destroyed, but added that it would be days before an accurate estimate of the economic impact could be made.

Nearly one fifth of Sri Lanka's rice farms were affected by the floods, along with other vegetable crops, triggering immediate price rises in retail markets across the country.

Government officials said at least 30,000 homes had been damaged or completely destroyed by the floods and mudslides.

In the north-central region of Habarana, the carcass of a drowned baby elephant was found Thursday atop a 15-foot (five-metre) tree that had been submerged by the floodwaters.

Weather conditions improved across the island Saturday, but the meteorological bureau in Colombo said there was a possibility of further rains.

The improved weather opened up the main roads leading to the key eastern towns, where a consignment of food, bottled water and medicines donated by India was being distributed Saturday.

Some 3,000 soldiers have been deployed to help with the relief efforts, along with trucks and air force helicopters.

A large number of those forced out of their homes had only recently been resettled after decades of ethnic conflict between Tamil Tiger rebels and government forces.
Many had also seen their livelihoods wrecked before by the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

Sri Lanka depends on monsoon rains for irrigation and power generation, but the seasonal downpours frequently cause death and property damage in low-lying areas as well as mountainous regions.

The island's two main monsoon seasons run from May to September and December to February.

 

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