Last week’s floods and rain affected 182,165 families in 12 districts with Ampara District the worst hit by the floods. A count showed that 68,248 families displaced there. The Batticaloa District was the second in the list with 63,000 families displaced and Vavunia District the third with 52,700 families, affected a press release from the Social Service and Women’s Empowerment Ministry yesterday said.

The other districts hit by the floods were Badulla, Nuwara Eliya, Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa, Trincomalee, Jaffna, Kilinochchi, Mulativu and Mannar.

According to the latest reports 16,000 houses have been damaged or destroyed in the floods while 52,000 acres of farm land, especially paddy crops were destroyed by the floods.