Sri Lanka reels from Cyclone Ditwah as death toll nears 200

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00:00A cyclone triggered heavy flooding, with dozens of people reported killed and missing,

00:05and more than 20,000 homes destroyed.

00:08A state of emergency has been declared in what is the worst natural disaster in Sri Lanka in several years.

00:18There has been lots of damage done.

00:22Water levels compared to 1989 and 2016 are just two feet less.

00:30Troops were deployed to help those stranded by cyclone Ditwa.

00:34Tens of thousands of people have sought refuge in hundreds of relief centres, mostly set up in schools.

00:41Aid organisations and volunteers have been working to do what they can to help.

00:45We are collecting dry vessels and other supplementary items to be distributed among affected people.

00:53Now there are about more than 200,000 people affected due to floods,

00:58and we are actually collecting from various donors and volunteers.

01:04Officials said about a third of the country was without electricity after power lines collapsed.

01:10Cyclone Ditwa, after moving away from Sri Lanka on Saturday, headed towards neighbouring India.

01:16Other countries, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, have also been hit by flooding.

01:21Scientists warn that the climate emergency is making such extreme weather events worse.

01:26It is really bad shows.

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