COLOMBO, June 2 (Xinhua) — Sri Lanka’s Disaster Management Center said that one person was killed with over 12,000 others affected by heavy rains and gale-force winds in many parts of the country by Thursday morning.
The affected people belong to 2,672 families in Ratnapura, Kandy, Kalutara, Gampaha, Colombo and Matara districts.
The worst affected district was Gampaha, where 8,517 people from 2,448 fami