1,300 dead from floods in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand
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Asia Groans Under Water Damage, Sri Lanka Declares Emergency
A state of emergency was declared in Sri Lanka on Saturday as Cyclone Ditwah unleashed heavy rainfall, causing floods, overflowing rivers, and landslides creating havoc across the country.
Satellite imagery captured the extent of the flooding that devastated parts of South East Asia in late November, killing at least 1,200 people.These images, captured by Planet Labs PBC, show extensive flooding in the Colombo and Kaduwela areas of Sri Lanka (images 1-2),
Governments and aid groups in Indonesia and Sri Lanka worked Tuesday to rush aid to hundreds of thousands stranded by deadly flooding that has killed more than 1,300 people in
ALAWATHUGODA, Sri Lanka, Dec 2 - Nawaz Nashra recalls grabbing her three-year-old daughter, wrapping her in a bedsheet and running out of their home in central Sri Lanka as a landslide struck, triggered by a deadly cyclone that killed 410 people in the worst floods in a decade.
Separate weather systems brought torrential, extended rainfall to the island of Sri Lanka and large parts of Indonesia's Sumatra, southern Thailand and northern Malaysia last week
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Los esfuerzos de recuperación tras inundaciones mortales avanzan en Indonesia, Sri Lanka y Tailandia
Los esfuerzos de recuperación y ayuda avanzaban en partes del sudeste asiático y el sur de Asia, donde aún no se conoce el
Pakistan's effort to provide aid to flood-affected Sri Lanka faced backlash after the High Commission posted images of relief supplies showing expired dates., Asia, Times Now