Around 11 Persons Died And NEARLY 85,000 Affected Due To Adverse Weather-Kalu River Began To Overflow -DMC

Around 84,943 persons belonging to 18,542 families have been affected due to the Adverse Weather condition and 11 persons have died due to the accidents related to the Adverse Weather up to 10 a.m this morning according to the Disaster Management Center(DMC).

At the moment low land areas in Madurawala and Millaniya in Ratnapura are being submerged due to flood waters as a result of overflowing of Kalu River it has been reported.

Due to the overflowing of Kelani River Kaduwela,Hanwella and Kaduwela-Biyagama areas  are being submerged .

Navy relief teams and other forces have moved a large number of persons in these submerged areas to safe places .

Heavy showers continues in many districts including Colombo at the moment.