Sri Lanka: Deadly Landslide Hits Central Sri Lanka

Oct 30, 2014 | New York Times
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At least six people were killed and about 300 were missing in central Sri Lanka on Wednesday after an early morning landslide set off by heavy monsoon rains.About 150 homes at the Meeriyabedda tea plantation in the district of Badulla, most of them small rooms constructed in a line and attached to one another, were crushed under mud around 7:30 a.m. It had been raining for days in the area, disaster management officials said. Most of the missing were tea plantation workers who lived in the homes, officials said.Beyond the recovered bodies, many more are believed to be beneath 10 to 15 feet of mud.