Anguished Sri Lankans queue for care after cyclone

Long before dawn, people were already queueing for medical aid on Tuesday at an emergency camp in Sri Lanka’s coastal town of Chilaw, hit hard by a deadly cyclone and floods.

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Carpenter Prasantha Perera, 60, was waiting to have a shard of wood removed from his left foot, so that he can finally begin the arduous task of cleaning up.

The disaster caused by Cyclone Ditwah -- the island’s worst this century -- has affected more than two million people, or nearly 10 per cent of the population.

Atleast 638 people were killed.