Nov 26, Colombo: Nearly 136,000 families have faced difficulties due to the torrential rains lashing for the past few days throughout the country.

According to Sri Lanka’s Disaster Management Centre (DMC), most number of families is affected in the northern part of the country.

Jaffna is the most inundated district and over 100,000 families have been affected by the rains. According to the DMC over 25,000 families in Mannar district were severely affected.

Meteorology Department of Sri Lanka expects more thunder showers to lash the northern part of the country in the coming days.

Meanwhile two small scale landslides were reported form Nawalapitiya and Kotagala, in Sri Lanka’s hill country last night.

However, there were no injuries reported, says Disaster Management Centre of Sri Lanka.