At least six people were killed and several others reported missing on Friday due to landslides in two different areas in Sri Lanka's Kalutara district following heavy rainfall, police said
At least six people were killed and several others reported missing on Friday due to landslides in two different areas in Sri Lanka's Kalutara district following heavy rainfall, police said.
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Rescue operations are currently underway at both the affected locations -- Kosbawaka and Delpawatta, Xinhua news agency reported.
Airforce helicopters were also dispatched to assist the people trapped in their homes and other locations due to rising water levels.
Sri Lanka's Disaster Management Centre (DMC) on Friday issued flood and landslide warnings in several areas of the country
Although the exact number of those affected is still unknown, rescue and evacuation missions are ongoing in several areas, a DMC official said.
Highways and railway lines in several areas remained inundated hampering transport services while schools across the Sabaragamuwa province remained closed.
The Meteoroglogy Department in its latest weather report warned of showers and strong winds to continue over the southwestern part of the country.
The Chief Minister, who is in Delhi, showed pictures and videos of the violence on her mobile, and claimed police personnel including women were assaulted by BJP and Left activists during the respective protest marches.
"It is BJP and the CPI-M who have unleashed violence," Banerjee told the media in New Delhi after meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
On the other hand, state BJP spokesman Samik Bhattacharya called the state police "unprofessional" and "ferocious".
"What we saw today, is the police - unable to control our movement - brought in Trinamool-backed hooligans. Nothing can be more condemnable than this.
"They carried out unprovoked baton charge. Around 200 BJP workers, including women, were injured. Two of our workers admitted at the SSKM Hospital are very serious. One of them has internal haemorrhage, while a 27-year-old man vomited blood," he said.
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