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Sri Lanka : 100 dead in mudslides, 99 missing
Saturday, May 27, 2017 IST
Sri Lanka : 100 dead in mudslides, 99 missing

Sri Lanka : 100 dead in mudslides, 99 missing

Sri Lanka has bid for outside help as the loss of life from floods and mudslides on Saturday rose to 100 with 99 others missing.

The Disaster Management Center said more than 2,900 individuals have been uprooted.

The military utilized substantial defensively covered vehicles and water crafts to transport individuals to wellbeing. Be that as it may, some stayed caught in inside towns where interior villages have been not able reach.

At a crossing point near Agalawatte, 98 kilometers (60 miles) south of capital Colombo, four bodies in boxes were kept in a house, anticipating vessels to be taken to a sanctuary where displaced individuals have taken asylum.

Inhabitants of Wehangalla town close Agalawatte were marooned as floodwaters overwhelmed the vast majority of the structures up to the rooftop. They had fled to higher landscape yet four individuals among them passed on in a mudslide and three others are absent. They griped that administration help still had not achieved the territory and they were making due on sustenance is given by those in close-by villagers.

The Sri Lankan government spoke to the U.N and different nations for help with safeguard and alleviation measures.

Mudslides have turned out to be basic amid the rainstorm season in the tropical Indian Ocean island as land has been vigorously deforested to develop trade harvests, for example, tea and elastic.

Last May, an enormous avalanche executed more than 100 individuals in focal Sri Lanka.

 
 
 
 
 

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Shibu Chandran
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Serving political interests in another person's illness is the lowest form of human value. A 70+ y old lady has cancer.

November 28, 2016 05:00 IST
Shibu Chandran
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Serving political interests in another person's illness is the lowest form of human value. A 70+ y old lady has cancer.

November 28, 2016 05:00 IST
Shibu Chandran
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Serving political interests in another person's illness is the lowest form of human value. A 70+ y old lady has cancer.

November 28, 2016 05:00 IST


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