Tropical storms and heavy rainfall have caused devastating flooding and landslides across much of South and Southeast Asia in recent days, with officials saying more than 1,250 people have been killed across Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand alone and that many others are still missing.

Two cyclones and a typhoon, all different kinds of tropical storms, contributed to the disaster, which left towns and villages buried under mud across Sri Lanka , Thailand and the Indonesian island of Sumatra , with recovery efforts expected to continue for weeks.

Sri Lanka has declared a state of emergency after the flooding and landslides, which displaced more than 1.1 million people. The country is facing a “humanitarian crisis of historic proportions”, Sampath Kotuwegoda, the director general of

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