The Director General of the Disaster Management Center, Major General Sudantha Ranasinghe stated that despite the red notices being issued, those who do not leave the area will be forcibly evicted.
He states that in the last 10 days 126 Divisional Secretariats in 17 districts of Sri Lanka have been affected by the disaster and 20 people have been killed so far.
One person has gone missing and five others have been injured. A total of 62,247 people from 17,481 families in 126 Divisional Secretariat Divisions have been affected by the recent disasters, he said.
