EU pledges USD 2.7mn for flood relief

14 January 2011 03:45 pm

The European Union today said it would provide flood-stricken Sri Lanka with a USD 2.7-million humanitarian aid package.

The floods have claimed 23 lives and displaced almost one million people.

"My main concern for the future concerns the livelihood of those affected by the floods. These will affect their crops ... I fear the humanitarian impact of increasingly erratic weather," the EU's humanitarian aid commissioner Kristalina Georgieva said in a statement. (IANS)