Sebanyak 60.000 orang telah meninggalkan tempat tinggal mereka di Sri Lanka akibat banjir yang disebabkan oleh hujan lebat, demikian keterangan pemerintah Sabtu, sementara jumlah korban jiwa akibat tanah longsor sehari sebelumnya naik jadi 13.
Around 60,000 people have been displaced in Sri Lanka by flooding caused by torrential monsoon rains, the government said on Saturday, while the death toll from landslides a day earlier rose to 13.