(Bloomberg) -- Rescuers confirmed that 132 villagers are feared buried by landslides this week in central Sri Lanka, according to Mahieash Johney, a spokesman for the Red Cross.
Authorities, who are continuing the search, have also raised the island-wide death toll to 63 as a depression that engulfed the island earlier this week turned into a cyclonic storm.
Floodwaters
Schools across the South Asian island were ordered shut on Friday
as floodwaters submerged suburbs of the capital Colombo, including
around the nation’s parliament.
“Landslide wise, this is the biggest toll in recent history," Johney said. “It’s also the biggest natural disaster across the island since the tsunami.”
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