The Sri Lankan Minister of Disaster Management, Mahinda Amaraweera, on Monday said the country had called off search operations for bodies of those killed in a landslide in the central part of the country.
The death toll in the October 29 disaster is officially listed at 34, but the military, which conducted recovery operations, found only 14 bodies at the site at Meeriyabedda, Koslanda, east of Colombo.
Amaraweera said that the others are believed to be buried in the landslide.
“Some 58 families evacuated from the area would be housed in an abandoned tea factory for three months.
“After that, new houses will be built for them by the state,” Amaraweera said.
Report says some 330 persons were living in the affected area, but at the time of the landslide some 75 children had left for school and most others had gone to work on the tea plantation.
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