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Almost 900 affected as floods and lightning hit Mannar

Almost 900 affected as floods and lightning hit Mannar by Thusiyan Tue, 27/10/2026 - 10:38 Body Families leave their homes in Mannar on a tractor trailer sheltered under a tarpaulin. Almost 900 people across Mannar district have been affected by days of heavy rain and flooding, with whole families displaced into a school building, roads to two villages submerged and houses wrecked by a lightning strike in the middle of the night. The deputy director of the Mannar district disaster management division, Nadarajah Sooriyarajah, said on Monday that 870 people from 351 families had been affected s…