Sri Lanka asked Japan to send its outpatient disaster medical unit to Chilaw, a cyclone-hit town whose main hospital was flooded The queue of Sri Lankan men, women and children waiting for medical ...

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Cyclone Ditwah brought record rains that triggered landslides and floods across Sri Lanka Residents returning to ravaged homes and businesses in flood-hit Sri Lanka have turned to neighbours and ...

Floods and landslides caused by Cyclone Ditwah left extensive damage throughout Sri Lanka - Copyright AFP/File Ishara S. KODIKARA Floods and landslides caused by ...

In the mist-draped mountains of Sri Lanka's tea country, rescuers were still plucking bodies from the reddish-brown mud on Tuesday after last week's cyclone, the island's worst natural disaster in ...

Sri Lanka is in its northeast monsoon season, but rainfall has intensified because of Cyclone Ditwah - Copyright AFP Andreas SOLARO Sri Lanka is in its northeast ...

Landslide warnings were still being issued in Sri Lanka in the wake of last week's Cyclone Ditwah, with the death toll from the floods jumping to 607. Some 214 people remained missing, the Disaster ...

Sri Lankan authorities said Wednesday they would need some $7 billion to rebuild homes, industries and roads destroyed by Cyclone Ditwah, which has left at least 465 people dead so far. Hopes have ...

Long before dawn, people were already queueing for medical aid on Tuesday at an emergency camp in Sri Lanka's coastal town of Chilaw, hit hard by a deadly cyclone and floods. Carpenter Prasantha ...

Survivors of Cyclone Ditwah that has ravaged Sri Lanka in recent days began returning to their devastated homes on Wednesday, faced with a massive clean-up as they start rebuilding their lives. The ...