FLASH
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Rescue, recovery and reconstruction efforts are underway in parts of South and Southeast Asia, where the death toll from devastating floods continues to rise.
According to authorities, extreme weather last week has killed at least 366 people in Sri Lanka, 604 in Indonesia and 176 in Thailand.
Rescuers in Sri Lanka are still searching for 367 people after a cyclone hit the island nation, with torrential rains flooding homes, fields and roads and triggering landslides in the central hilly region.
About a million people have been affected by torrential rains and flooding, which forced nearly 200,000 to take shelter, the country's disaster management center said.
People were seen rescuing personal belongings from flooded houses along the banks of the Kelani River, near the capital Colombo on Monday.
Meanwhile, train and flight services have resumed after being suspended last week, but schools remained closed, officials said.
Cyclone Ditwah was the "biggest and most challenging" natural disaster in Sri Lanka's history, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake said.
The cyclone also brought torrential rains to the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu over the weekend, with authorities saying three people were killed in rain-related incidents.
The storm, which is currently 50 km (30 miles) off the coast of the state capital Chennai, has already weakened to a "deep depression" and is expected to weaken further in the next 12 hours, weather officials said on Monday.
In Southeast Asia, nearly 700 people died when two separate cyclones hit the region. Rescue teams in Indonesia are still searching for at least 464 people missing, according to official figures.
People began clearing mud, trees and debris from roads over the weekend, while recovery operations continued.
More than 28,000 homes have been damaged, with 1.4 million people affected by the rare tropical storm.
The country's president, Prabowo Subianto, called it a disaster and vowed to rebuild infrastructure as he visited the three affected provinces on Monday, where nearly 300,000 people have been displaced by the floods.
In Thailand, floods in eight southern provinces affected about three million people and led to a major mobilization of its military to evacuate critical patients from hospitals and help people trapped in floodwaters for days.
In the worst-hit city of Hat Yai, a southern commercial hub, 335 mm (13 inches) of rain fell on November 21, the highest daily amount in 300 years, followed by days of incessant downpours.
At least 82 people have died and more than 3 million others have been affected by floods in 12 southern provinces of Thailand.
Prime Minister Anutin Charnivirakul expects residents to be able to return home within seven days, a government spokesman said on Monday.
The first batch of compensation payments will be distributed on Monday, starting with 239 million baht (£5.6 million) for 26,000 people, the spokesman added.
There have been at least three deaths in Malaysia and authorities are still on alert for a second and third wave of flooding, as 11,600 people remain in evacuation centers.
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