Sri Lanka closed government offices and schools on Friday (November 28, 2025) as the death toll from floods and landslips across the country rose to 56 while more than 600 houses were damaged, officials said.
Sri Lanka began grappling with severe weather last week and the conditions worsened on Thursday with heavy downpours that flooded homes, fields and roads, and triggered landslips across the country.
More than 25 people were killed Thursday in landslips in the central mountainous tea-growing regions of Badulla and Nuwara Eliya, which is about 300 kilometres east of the capital, Colombo. Another 21 people were missing and 14 were injured in the Badulla and Nuwara Eliya areas, according to the government's disaster management centre.
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Others died in landslips in different parts of the country.
