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One person drowned in raging flood waters at Vavuniya while another woman was killed in a landslide that crashed on to her home at Ambawaka on the Badulla-Nuwara Eliya road, 
�She was identified as Mary Fernando aged 50.
He added that the authorities have already set up ten camps to house�some 2,000�displaced persons at Vavuniya in the north and Trincomalee on the east coast.�
Furthermore some 16 families had also been moved out from a village in the Baddula District owing to landslide threats, he added.�
A spokesperson with the Department of Meteorology said that the wet weather was set to continue in most parts of the country throughout the week. (LB) (DW)
Picture shows mud-clogged roads and official monitoring rising waters in a river close to the Kantala Tank today. Pic: By Amadoru Amarajeewa
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Source: http://www.sundaytimes.lk/latest/4462-two-killed-as-wet-weather-continues
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