Refugee camps flooded
01/01/2005 10:19  - (SA)  

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Colombo - At least 10 camps sheltering thousands of tsunami survivors were hit by flash floods on Saturday and evacuated in Sri Lanka's eastern district of Ampara, a regional official said.

Massive rains dumped 330mm of water overnight, inundating the tsunami-devastated coastal region and crippling all relief operations, district chief Herath Abeyweera reported.

He said a team of 20 Japanese medical staff were unable to move out to camps that were more than a metre underwater while all relief convoys were also held up by the heavy flooding.

- AFP

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