New Delhi: Disaster struck Sri Lanka on the eve of the third anniversary of the tsunami as torrential rains displaced 2,11,613 people in the eastern and central parts of the island.
The rains lashed areas that had borne the brunt of the killer waves of the December 26, 2004, tsunami.
The Disaster Management Centre said on Tuesday that an overflowing reservoir in the eastern district of Batticaloa had displaced 150,000 people.
The unceasing downpour had thrown 20,000 out of their homes in Amparai, in the southeast, and 6,000 in Pollonnaruwa in central Sri Lanka, in the past two days.
Amparai district, and to a lesser extent Batticaloa district, had suffered extensively during the Boxing Day tsunami three years ago.
The central district of Polonnaruwa was second-worst hit, with around 6,500 people displaced, with the balance affected in the northern districts of Jaffna and Trincomalee and the central district of Matale.
The inundation comes a week after 20,000 people were flooded out of their homes mainly in the eastern district of Ampara, when a depression over the Bay of Bengal intensified monsoon rains.
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