Nearly 30,000 marooned in eastern Sri Lanka floods

Nearly 30,000 people in eastern Sri Lanka have been displaced by floods caused by incessant rains over the weekend, disaster relief officials said here Monday.

Most affected were people from the Ampara district where 22,339 people from 5,824 families were displaced, officials said.

In the Batticoloa district, about 1,500 families have been relocated to schools due to flooding, officials said, adding that most of them are those living in camps after being displaced by the conflict between government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels.

Some of the main motorways in the east are impassable while some paddy fields have gone under water, said the police.

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