Sri Lanka: Many missing after floods kill 151 people

Flooding and mudslides have killed at least 151 people in Sri Lanka and 111 people remain missing, according to Rajitha Senaratne, health minister.

Flooding and mudslides have killed at least 151 people in Sri Lanka and 111 people remain missing, according to Rajitha Senaratne, the health minister.

Emergency teams rushed to distribute aid to another half a million people displaced by the island’s worst flooding in more than a decade.

Al Jazeera’s Minelle Fernandez reports from the seaside town of Matara.