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“At least 91 people are dead and more than 100 are missing after monsoon rains hit Sri Lanka's southwest, ”the country's Disaster Management Centre said on Friday.
      “Nearly 24,000 people in 13 districts have been impacted by flooding or landslides,”the disaster center said. The districts most affected were Ratnapura, 100 km (62 miles) southeast of Colombo and Kalutara, about 40 km (25 miles) south of the capital, which both had a series of landslides after the terrible rains and the landslides caused most of the death.
     Troops have been sent there for the rescue operations and the Home Ministry has set up a 24-hour relief center for the people affected.“ Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena is going to return to Colombo on Friday night after a two-day state visit to Australia ahead of schedule and plans to hold an emergency meeting with emergency officials to discuss relief operations, ”an administration official said.
     Foreign Minister Ravi Karunanayake told CNN a ship full of relief supplies from India would arrive in the Colombo Port on Saturday morning. He said this was only part of the assistance India has offered -- a larger ship carrying more supplies and personnel would arrive on Sunday. "We have a problem of limited resources to deal with the situation. As a result, we have made many appeals," he said.
     The South West monsoon responsible for the rain came after nearly two months of drought, which had prompted the World Food Programme to deliver aid to those affected. Dunesh Gankanda, acting minister of Disaster Management, told reporters that a full assessment of the damage and the number of the death and missing would be known only when all reports from the districts were received.