About one hundred people died buried alive by a landslide caused by torrential monsoon rains that hit the region in the middle of a tea plantation in Sri Lanka. “There is no chance that anyone of them survived,” – said Minister. Mahinda Amaraweera crisis management.
The number of victims might be not final, because different sources give different figures on the topic.
The mudslide came down on Wednesday just before the eighth hour morning local time (before the third night time Polish). AFP writes that at the time the avalanche of children were out of immediate danger – at school and adults at work – on a tea plantation, but some may have to stay home because of bad weather.
The Minister Amaraweera announced that avalanche had at least 3 km long, covered many houses plantation workers, some more than two meters of mud.
Emergency crews tried to bring out the bodies of the victims. The work was stopped because of nightfall.
From the beginning of the heavy rains in mid-September in Sri Lanka descended many mudslides that damaged the road, but has not resulted in human casualties.
Mudslide, 100 people died – rmf24.pl
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