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Type of Event: |
Flooding |
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Location of Event: |
Sri Lanka |
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Date of Charter Activation: |
03/11/2006 |
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Charter Requestor: |
UNOOSA |
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Project Management: |
Description of Event
Serious floods starting end-October, now escalating to large area major emergency. As a result of the inter-monsoon rains combined with storms several areas of Sri Lanka have flooded. The affected districts are Colombo, Gampaha, Kalutara, Galle, Matara, Puttlam, Ratnapura, Badulla, Kegalle and Kurunegala of which Gampaha district is the most affected. As of 30 October, the Disaster Management Center reported that 23 people had been killed, two had been injured and about 331,000 people had been affected.