Sri Lankan navy personnel carry a woman on a wheelchair on a flooded road in Wellampitiya, Sri Lanka May 21, 2016. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte
COLOMBO (Reuters) - The cost of Sri Lanka's landslides and floods will be between $1.5 billion (1.03 billion pounds) and $2 billion (1.37 billion pounds) at the minimum, the government said on Monday, as the Indian Ocean island struggles to recover from its worst natural disaster since the 2004 Asia tsunami.
The official death toll has risen to 92 but 109 people are feared to have been buried in landslides.
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