Torrential rain that lashed out in the Aluwatte - Warakapola dislodged a house and swept it away to near by stream along with its sole occupant a 70 year old woman named Devatha Pedige Dingiri who was drowned in the stream.
Her body is now laying at the Warakapola hospital morgue. Warakapola police is investigating the incident.
(JJ)