At least 12 people, including six children, have drowned in torrential rain in Sri Lanka caused by a slow-moving storm now headed toward India. More than 335,000 people in Sri Lanka have been forced to flee after their homes were flooded in the storm, Colombo's Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said.

Sri Lankan rescue teams said Thursday they had recovered four drowned children killed in a flash flood, with four other people missing, after torrential rains from a powerful but slow-moving storm now heading towards India.

COLOMBO: Heavy rains lashed southern India on Wednesday (Nov 27) with coastal regions bracing for a likely cyclonic storm, as rescue teams in neighbouring Sri Lanka searched for eight people missing in floods.

Sri Lankan rescuers on Thursday recovered the drowned corpses of six children, taking the number killed in torrential rains to 12, as a powerful but slow-moving storm headed towards India. Having skirted the coast of Sri Lanka,