A hundred bodies would be under this mountain of mud in Sri Lanka. A hundred bodies, because two days after casting that ravaged this tea plantation, there is more hope of finding survivors. A sign not mistaken, excavators came into action when the search resumed this morning. Dog teams also arrived on the scene.
The number of missing was revised down through the center of disaster management, because 227 people whose fate was uncertain were actually at work or school when their homes were buried.
Unstable ground and episodes of monsoon is a very dangerous cocktail Koslanda in this region, located about 200 kilometers east of the capital Colombo. New mudslides are feared. Also, to prevent a tragedy like this does not happen again Wednesday, 1200 people from the neighboring plantations were evacuated.
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