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		</div><p>The death toll from floods and mudslides following heavy rain in Sri Lanka has risen to 14 with another two people missing, officials said.</p>
<p>Ten districts on the island have seen heavy rainfall since last Thursday, including the capital Colombo and suburbs where many houses, fields and roads have been inundated.</p>
<p>Ten people have died in floods while another four lost their lives in mudslides, according to the government’s Disaster Management Centre.</p>
<p>Among them was a family of four who died when a mound of earth crashed onto their house in the district of Kegalle, about 53 miles east of Colombo.</p>
<p>Two others remain missing.</p>
<p>Sri Lanka’s navy said it had deployed 33 teams to flooded areas, which so far have rescued 66 people stranded by the floodwaters.</p>
<p>The Disaster Management Centre said the extreme weather has affected some 245,000 people, and more than 4,300 remain displaced in emergency shelters.</p>
<p>More than 800 houses have been damaged.</p>
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