Sri Lankan drought: 90,000 affected

Colombo: Over 90,000 people in Sri Lanka’s four provinces had been affected by droughts, the Disaster Management Center (DMC) said on Sunday.

The DMC said that the four affected areas are Sabaragamuwa, Eastern, North Western, and Northern provinces.

A total of 89,485 people from 27,885 families have been affected by the drought so far.

Jaffna in the Northern Province is the worst affected district, with 69,113 people from 21,714 families impacted, the DMC said.

According to the DMC, droughts in this South Asian Island country usually occur due to the delay of monsoon onset or the temporal variability of rainfall.

With inputs from IANS