The road between Central Province (Kandy) and Uwa Province (Badulla) was restored after the Engineer Task Force of the Indian Army constructed a 100-foot bailey bridge within a day.
Coastal cities from Chennai to Colombo share the same vulnerabilities: rampant urban development, concretised flood plains, and stormwater drains treated as garbage bins
The disaster is already the deadliest since the Boxing Day earthquake and tsunami of 2004, which devastated Sri Lanka's coastline. This time, the entire country has been affected.