Satellite imagery shows devastating impact of record rainfall in Asia

Satellite imagery has revealed how deadly flooding in the last two weeks wreaked havoc across Southeast Asia as record rainfall upended life for millions throughout Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand

Satellite imagery has revealed how deadly flooding in the last two weeks wreaked havoc across Southeast Asia as record rainfall upended life for millions throughout Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand.

Before and after imagery from the San Francisco-based imaging company Planet Labs PBC and the Colorado-based U.S. defense contractor Vantar, show how rising waters in Sri Lanka transformed parts of the previously verdant capital of some 650,000 people.

Along the Kelani River in Colombo, fields, open spaces and roads around the windy waterway turned into muddy ponds after Cyclone Ditwah made landfall Friday.

On Monday, media photographs showed children paddling in makeshift rafts around the capital and displaced residents taking shelter in tents. More than 1.1 million people were affected across the country, according to its disaster management office.

Floods across the tropical region over the past two weeks have killed more than 1,300 people and displaced millions. Around 400 people were killed in Sri Lanka, a country of 22 million people, with President Anura Kumara Dissanayake saying Sunday,"This is the first time the entire country has been struck by such a disaster."