Sri Lankan residents make their way through floodwaters in the suburb of Kaduwela in the capital Colombo on May 28, 2017. -AFP
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s monsoon toll climbed to 164 with the discovery of more bodies of people buried in landslides triggered by intense rains, the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said Monday.
Friday’s deluge also caused the island’s worst flooding in 14 years and drove nearly half a million people out of their inundated homes in the southern and western regions.
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