The Disaster Management Centre (DMC) on Monday reported that 204 houses have sustained partial damage across 13 districts due to the inclement weather affecting Sri Lanka, with one home in Ratnapura completely destroyed. A total of 5,277 people from 1,585 families across 14 districts have been severely affected as of 10am.
Two deaths and one injury have been reported because of the weather, and 135 individuals from 42 families have moved to two temporary safety shelters, the DMC said.
Kalutara has been hardest-hit, with 90 partially damaged houses, Ada Derana reported. The damage tally also includes Batticaloa (25), Gampaha (25), Ratnapura (22), Galle (14), Colombo (5), Mannar (5), Monaragala (4), Jaffna (4), Anuradhapura (2), Hambantota (2) and Trincomalee (2). Affected families have been recorded from 66 Divisional Secretariat divisions island-wide.
The latest tally extends a multi-day weather event that pushed the death toll to two and damage to 88 houses by May 15, when the Department of Meteorology had projected the system would recede within 36 hours. The casualty count has held steady but the structural damage and affected population have continued to climb. The DMC’s situation report runs alongside a Police Media Division advisory issued the same morning warning of rising drowning deaths and urging caution around reservoirs and rivers, after fatal incidents at the Victoria reservoir and a Kekirawa quarry over the weekend.
Sources: Newswire, Ada Derana.
