Hundreds of flood victims in Sri Lanka besieged a district office in the Eastern town of Kathankudi complaining about unfair distribution of emergency food aid, the police said Tuesday.

Sri Lanka warned on Monday that food prices could shoot up after devastating floods in the North and East of the country destroyed rice and vegetable crops.

The threat of disease loomed Saturday over the million-plus victims of floods in Sri Lanka that have left more than 30 people dead and devastated farmland in the island's rice bowl.

The Sri Lankan military and aid agencies struggled Thursday to bring relief to a million people displaced by floods that have claimed nearly 30 lives and devastated the island's rice bowl.