{"id":75418,"date":"2025-12-01T03:04:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T18:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2025\/nov\/30\/sri-lanka-floods-displace-families-video"},"modified":"2025-12-01T03:04:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T18:04:26","slug":"everything-is-underwater-sri-lanka-floods-displace-families-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75418","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Everything is underwater&#8217;: Sri Lanka floods displace families \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Floodwaters continued to rise on Sunday in Sri Lanka&#8217;s capital, Colombo, and the neighbouring Gampaha district, prompting authorities to evacuate thousands of residents from low-lying areas. Officials reported nearly 200 people dead and hundreds still missing after a powerful cyclone triggered heavy rains and mudslides across the island nation.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/30\/sri-lanka-capital-colombo-hit-by-floods-as-cyclone-death-toll-rises\">Sri Lanka\u2019s capital hit by floods as cyclone death toll nears 200<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/30\/indonesia-thailand-floods\">Indonesia and Thailand floods death toll passes 600 with hundreds still missing<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2025\/nov\/30\/sri-lanka-floods-displace-families-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Floodwaters continued to rise on Sunday in Sri Lanka&#8217;s capital, Colombo, and the neighbouring Gampaha district, prompting authorities to evacuate thousands of residents from low-lying areas. Officials reported nearly 200 people dead and hundreds still &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[455,313,61,674],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extreme-weather","category-flooding","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75419,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75418\/revisions\/75419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}