Eight people including 6 children missing as heavy rains trigger flooding in Sri Lanka
Cătălin Roșioru
COLOMBO: Heavy rains lashed southern India on Wednesday (Nov 27) with coastal regions bracing for a likely cyclonic storm, as rescue teams in neighbouring Sri Lanka searched for eight people missing in floods. Cyclones - the equivalent of hurricanes in the North Atlantic or typhoons in the northwestern Pacific - are a regular and deadly menace in the region. In eastern Sri Lanka, which saw torrential rains since Tuesday, government rescue teams were searching for six children and two men swept
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