Srilanka, Nov. 29 -- At least 115 people have been killed across South-East Asia after a week of record-breaking rain, flash flooding and landslides which metrologists say stemmed partly from a 'rare' tropical cyclone.In Thailand, at least 55 people died during severe floods from a week of heavy rain that has devastated nine Southern Provinces, its Government said.

On Sumatra - an Indonesian island of 60 million people - a tropical cyclone unleashed deadly floods and landslides, leaving at least 60 people dead and a further 59 missing.

Meteorologists say current extremes of weather in South-East Asia could stem from the interaction of two active systems, Typhoon Koto in the Philippines and the formation of Cyclone Senyar in the Malacca ...