More than 30 dead and 14 missing as heavy rains trigger landslides and floods in Sri Lanka

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka stopped passenger trains and closed roads in some parts of the country where landslides and floods triggered by heavy rains have caused more than 30 deaths, officials said Thursday. The government’s disaster management center said 18 of the reported deaths occurred in the tea-growing, mountainous regions of Badulla and Nuwara Eliya in the country’s central province about 300 kilometers (186 miles) east of the capital Colombo. Another 14 people were missing Thursday due to landslides in the same areas, the center said.

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