Cyclone Ditwah has killed 123 people across Sri Lanka, with another 130 missing, according to AFP, as torrential rains caused the country’s worst flooding in over two decades.

Hat Yai, a city with a population of size similar to Britain's Oxford, received 335 mm (13 inches) of rain that day, for its highest single-day tally in 300 years, resulting in catastrophic floods.

Torrential rains have triggered floods and landslides across parts of southern Asia, killing around 600 people.

THE death toll from devastating floods and landslides in South-East Asia climbed past 350 as clean-up and search and rescue operations got underway in Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia.

For the first time since 2019, more residents are leaving high-flood-risk counties than entering them, though the exodus is still being offset somewhat by immigration.

At least 56 people have been killed and 21 are missing in Sri Lanka after floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains wreaked havoc this week, in one of its worst weather related disasters the country has seen in recent years.

Heavy rains have caused deadly flooding and landslides in Southeast Asia. On Monday, officials reported one more death in Vietnam and five in Thailand.