Devastating landslides turn Sri Lanka village into burial ground

KANDY, Sri Lanka: Electrician V. K. Muthukrishnan ran to help when a lightning-fast mudslide flattened his neighbor’s home in rural Sri Lanka — only to see his own house swept away minutes later. A friend whom he directed to the disaster site to aid rescue efforts was also killed in the second cascade of mud and boulders. “I have nightmares, thinking that I sent my friend to his death,” a tearful Muthukrishnan said as he showed AFP reporters the wreckage of his modest home, destroyed on November 27.

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