The flooding and landslides that have devastated parts of Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Sri Lanka over recent days have killed more than 1,000 people, according to authorities.
The death toll for the floods in Indonesia has risen to 502, the national disaster management agency has said in a new update, with another 508 people missing.
At least 340 people have been killed in Sri Lanka, officials said on Monday, with many more still missing. Flood waters in the capital, Colombo, peaked overnight, and with rain now stopped there were hopes that waters would begin receding.
Sri Lanka and Indonesia have deployed military personnel to help victims of the catastrophic flooding as rescue workers race to reach possible survivors in some of the hardest hit areas.
Flooding has killed at least 176 people in southern Thailand, according to officials, one of the deadliest flood incidents in the country in a decade.
Across the border, at least two deaths have been reported in Malaysia’s northern Perlis state. Stay with us as we give you the latest developments from the region.
The Sri Lankan president, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, declared a state of emergency on Saturday to deal with the aftermath of Cyclone Ditwah and appealed for international aid. He called it the “most challenging natural disaster” Sri Lanka has seen.
The extreme weather system had, as of Sunday, destroyed more than 25,000 homes and forced 147,000 people into state-run temporary shelters. A further 968,000 people required assistance after being displaced by the floods.
The cyclone is Sri Lanka’s deadliest natural disaster since 2017, when flooding and landslides claimed more than 200 lives and displaced hundreds of thousands of people.
Record rains hit he country from last Thursday causing multiple landslides in the hilly central region while overflowing rivers submerged entire towns.
Over 24,000 police, army and air force personnel are still trying to reach families stranded by floods, authorities said, with several countries having sent in aid to help with relief efforts, notably India and Japan.
The death toll in Sri Lanka has increased to 355, the country’s disaster management center said in its latest situation report, adding that another 366 people were missing.
Most of the deaths (88) occurred in the city of Kandy, followed by the central mountainous tea-growing regions of Nuwara Eliya (75) and Badulla (71), according to the officials.
The flooding and landslides that have devastated parts of Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Sri Lanka over recent days have killed more than 1,000 people, according to authorities.
The death toll for the floods in Indonesia has risen to 502, the national disaster management agency has said in a new update, with another 508 people missing.
At least 340 people have been killed in Sri Lanka, officials said on Monday, with many more still missing. Flood waters in the capital, Colombo, peaked overnight, and with rain now stopped there were hopes that waters would begin receding.
Sri Lanka and Indonesia have deployed military personnel to help victims of the catastrophic flooding as rescue workers race to reach possible survivors in some of the hardest hit areas.
Flooding has killed at least 176 people in southern Thailand, according to officials, one of the deadliest flood incidents in the country in a decade.
Across the border, at least two deaths have been reported in Malaysia’s northern Perlis state. Stay with us as we give you the latest developments from the region.
