16 killed, 7476 affected due to bad weather - DMC [June 03 2014]

16 persons were killed and 7, 476 persons have been affected due to the torrential rains that prevailed for the past three days causing floods and landslides through out the country, the Disaster Management Centre annunced.

Seven people sustained injuries whilst one is missing and 76 houses were damaged in the bad weather according to the statistics confirmed up to 6.00pm yesterday.

The casualties were mainly reported from the districts of Kalutara, Kegalle, Colombo, Gampaha and Matara.