{"id":10646,"date":"2011-01-11T17:24:45","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T15:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=10646"},"modified":"2011-01-11T17:24:45","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T15:24:45","slug":"siri-lanka-floods-kills-13-11012011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/siri-lanka-floods-kills-13-11012011\/","title":{"rendered":"Flooding kills 13 in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Sri-Lanka-floods.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10647\" title=\"Sri-Lanka-floods\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Sri-Lanka-floods.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Sri-Lanka-floods.jpg 506w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Sri-Lanka-floods-280x166.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/><\/a>Recent heavy rains across Sri Lanka caused flooding and landslides that left thousands homeless, killed 13 people and injured 44 others, the country&#8217;s disaster management agency said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have set up 351 camps to house more than 127,500 displaced people in three provinces, the agency said in a statement. More than 863,000 people have been affected by the floods, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The hardest hit areas were the eastern districts of Batticaloa and Ampara. Helicopters have been deployed to airlift villagers marooned in flood-stricken regions. And planes were delivering dry rations to the area.<\/p>\n<p>The government has ordered the closure of schools in the North Central, Central and Eastern provinces.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Health Maithripala Sirisena appealed to Sri Lankans Tuesday to donate food, blankets and clothing to flood victims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent heavy rains across Sri Lanka caused flooding and landslides that left thousands homeless, killed 13 people and injured 44 others, the country&#8217;s disaster management agency said Tuesday. Officials have set up 351 camps to house more than 127,500 displaced people in three provinces, the agency said in a statement. More than 863,000 people have &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":10647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[9454,14259,14238,13887,11190,1514],"class_list":["post-10646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","tag-floods","tag-heavy-rain","tag-homeless","tag-kill","tag-landslide","tag-sri-lanka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}