{"id":4902,"date":"2018-12-25T04:37:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T04:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=4902"},"modified":"2018-12-25T04:37:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-25T04:37:29","slug":"nearly-80000-affected-by-floods-in-north-and-central-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/nearly-80000-affected-by-floods-in-north-and-central-province\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 80,000 affected by floods in North and Central province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Nearly 80,000 people have been affected by floods in the North and parts of the Central province as of today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Disaster Management Centre said that around 73,000 people have been affected in the Northern Province.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Around 38,534 have been affected in the Kilinochchi District and around 20737 in Mulaitivu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Disaster Management Centre said that 12,642 have been affected in the Jaffna District as of this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Over 10,000 people affected by flash floods in the North have been sheltered in temporary camps.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">More than 230 troops have been engaged in relief operations since heavy rains lashed the North on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Meanwhile, in the Kandy District in the Central province, around 890 people have been affected by flash floods.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">President Maithripala Sirisena has instructed relevant authorities to provide immediate relief to the people affected by the heavy rains and floods.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">All necessary facilities will be provided to the people in the threatened areas until the floods subside, the President\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">President Sirisena has instructed the relevant authorities to release funds to the district secretaries promptly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The President has also instructed the Governor of the Northern Province, District Secretaries, the Army Commander and the Disaster Management Centers to carry out relief programs expeditiously.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 80,000 people have been affected by floods in the North and parts of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}