I am watching video from the BBC website. The president of Sri Lanka said that the land had become so unstable from flooding that landmines and other unexploded ordinance from the war was becoming dislodged, hurting people and hindering rescue efforts.
As if they didn't have enough to deal with.
That Civil War in Sri Lanka had petered to a halt but showed signs of getting restarted...hope the idiot suicide bombers among the Tamil Tigers and those of a more fanatical bent on the Sinhala Buddhist side of it can agree to a ceasfire for several more years.
I had an advisor in college who was a Sinhalese scholar. Sri Lanka really used to be a paradise.
Interestingly it's one of the many places that have made claims to be the location of the Garden of Eden. There's a series of small islands from Sri Lanka to the Indian Mainland called "Adam's Bridge" and I think there's some sort of footprint on a mountain that people claim is Adam's.