Visiting Japanese Technical Expert Team Handed Over A Report On How To Minimize Disasters During Adverse Weather

The 15 member Japanese Technical Expert team which

arrived in  Sri Lanka to conduct a technical study regarding the adverse weather pattern affected to Sri Lanka has handed over it's report to the Minister of Disaster Management Anura Priyadarshana Yapa .

Through the report the Japanese Technical Experts have made many important proposals to minimize the disaster situations during  adverse weather including the residents living in an area identified as a disaster prone area should be evacuated from their houses and re-settled in  safe places and train people living in  disaster prone areas how to evacuate from the areas themselves  when a disaster strikes.

A Person Was Killed And His Wife Got Injured After Colliding With A Train

A 25 year old person was killed and his

wife had been critically injured and hospitalized after colliding with a train travelling from Jaffna to Matara last afternoon (11) at kahawa station in Ambalangoda.

The two faced this incident while trying to take a selfie at the rail track it has been reported.

The critically injured female had been admitted to the Balapitiya Base Hospital .

A Person Was Injured And Hospitalized Due To A Motor Car-Train Collision

A person  had been injured and hospitalized after the

motor car he was driving in colliding with the "Samudra Devi" train travelling from Maradana to Galle near the train station in Northern Kalutara railway station today (12).

Due to the collision the engine of the Train too affected   and as a result train made a sudden stop at Aluthgama railway station  .The passangers of the train  have been later boarded to a slow train travelling to Galle it has been reported.

Around 28 Injured Due To A Collision Of Four Vehicles

Around 28 persons including 02 school children were hospitalized this morning after four vehicles colliding with each other in Pitiwella,Ginthota area on Galle-Colombo main road .

The injured were admitted to the Karapitiya Teaching Hospital.

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More Than 849,000 Persosn Affected Due To The Dry Weather In The Country

More than  849,000 people in the Northern ,Eastern and North Western Parts of the country have been affected due to the dry weather prevailing in there at the moment according to the Disaster Management Center.

Dry Weather is mainly prevailing in Jaffna,Ampara,Batticaloa and Kurunagala districts it has been revealed.

NBRO Has Commenced A Research On A Cracks Appeared Of A Karapitiya Hospital Ward

The Engineers attached to the National Building Research Organization(NBRO) has commenced  a research on the cracks appeared on a walls of a ward attached to the Karapitiya Teaching Hospital last night(11) according to the Director General Of Health Services Dr.Jayasundara Bandara.

According to the result of a preliminary research done  this morning(12) after being inspected the cracked walls of the ward the Engineers have informed the authorities no need to panic on the situation and there is no need to remove patients from the ward at the moment Dr.Bandara has stated.

The research continues according to the Director General Of Health Services.