The Sri Lanka Navy has placed 35 of its teams to move into areas vulnerable for floods as water levels were rising in some of the rivers including Kalutara, Ratnapura and Colombo areas.
Nine of the teams have been kept standby in the Galle, Hambantota and Tangalle areas.
The rest are in Kalutara, Ratnapura and Colombo where water levels in the main rivers have been rising.
A Sri Lankan man was apprehended at Suvarnabhumi airport for attempting to smuggle wildlife out of the country after three ball pythons were found hidden in his underwear, the Bangkok post reported.
Read these and more on tomorrow’s edition of the Sunday Times
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