A Sri Lankan bread seller drives his cart through a flooded area in Gampaha, about 20 kilometres east of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, November 10, 2021. (Photo by Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo)
Residents wade through a flooded street after a heavy monsoon rainfall at Malwana, outside the capital Colombo on November 9, 2021. (Photo by Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP Photo)
A vendor is seen in a broken mirror at a main market in Colombo, Sri Lanka on November 12, 2021. (Photo by Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters)
A military personnel (L) attends a ceremony to mark Poppy Day or Remembrance Day to pay respects to fallen war veterans from the two World Wars as well as from the internal Tamil separatist conflict, at the war memorial in Colombo on November 14, 2021. (Photo by Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP Photo)
Children play in the Indian Ocean during sunset at a beach in Galle on November 20, 2021. (Photo by Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP Photo)
A fishermen pulls-in a fishing net on a beach in Galle on November 27, 2021. (Photo by Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP Photo)
Sri Lankan air port workers stand next to a casket carrying remains of Priyantha Kumara, a Sri Lankan employee who was lynched by a Muslim mob in Sialkot last week after unloading it from an aircraft in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, December 6, 2021. (Photo by Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo)
People inspect the single natural corundum (blue sapphire) named “Queen of Asia”, considered the largest found in the world, in Horana, some 45 km from Colombo on December 12, 2021. (Photo by Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP Photo)
A Sri Lankan police officer, facing camera, hugs to console a relative of a victim at a police station in Thirukkovil, Sri Lanka, Saturday, December 25, 2021. A policeman has opened fire on a group of fellow officers in Sri Lanka, killing four of them and wounding three others. The shooting occurred Friday night inside a police station in the small town of Thirukkovil in eastern Sri Lanka, a police statement said. (Photo by Achala Pussalla/AP Photo)
Worshipers attend the Christmas Eve midnight mass at The Basilica of Our Lady of Lanka in Ragama suburb of Colombo, Sri Lanka, 25 December 2021. Approximately 1.4 million Catholics in Sri Lanka, representing about 7.1 percent of the total population, celebrate Christmas. (Photo by Chamila Karunarathne/EPA/EFE)
A slow shutter speed picture showing Sri Lankan children’s writing «2022» with firecrackers during New Year’s celebrations in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 31 December 2021. (Photo by Chamila Karunarathne/EPA/EFE)
