Ruined Rice Fields and Broken Rail Lines: Sri Lanka Counts Cost of Cyclone

Officials estimate the damage runs into billions of dollars, a headache for the island nation just recovering from an ...
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Leader of the House and Minister Bimal Ratnayake said in Parliament yesterday (03) that the country will be rebuilt and a better country will be gifted to the children within two years. He said this ...
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A blue schoolbag in a mass grave. Sri Lanka’s bloody past is re-emerging from the soil

Two human skeletons lie entangled on the rough earth – the arms of one wrapped around the other’s head, as though protecting them from danger.

As Cyclone Deaths Pass 150, Sri Lanka Is Overwhelmed by Rescue Demand

Rescue efforts across the nation of 23 million have been hampered by disruptions in transport and telecommunications.

Death toll from floods and mudslides in Sri Lanka rises to 123, over 100 missing

Sri Lankan authorities say the death toll from heavy floods and mudslides caused by Cyclone Ditwah has risen to 123 with 130 ...

Sri Lanka closes offices and schools as death toll from landslides and floods rises to 56

More than 25 people were killed Thursday in landslides in the central mountainous tea-growing regions of Badulla and Nuwara ...
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Sri Lanka bus crash kills 15, hurts 16

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- A passenger bus veered off a road and plunged into a precipice in a mountainous region in Sri Lanka, killing 15 people and injuring 16 others, a police spokesman said Friday. The ...