Flooded streets in Sri Lanka as powerful storm heads to India

Floods in central Sri Lanka's Polunnaruwa district has forced some 335,155 people to seek temporary shelter in public buildings after their homes were flooded, according to Colombo's Disaster Management Centre (DMC).

Rescuers recovered the bodies of six children, taking the number of those killed in the torrential rains to 12, as a powerful but slow-moving storm heads towards India.