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Four children drowned in Sri Lanka as storm heads to India

Fishermen prepare to dock their boats as part of a preventive measure from a predicted cyclonic storm, at a fishing harbour in Chennai on November 27, 2024. [Photo, AFP]

Sri Lankan rescue teams said Thursday they had recovered four drowned children killed in a flash flood, with four other people missing, after torrential rains from a powerful but slow-moving storm now heading towards India.

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