Roshan Seneviratne

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Sri Lanka Blames Garbage Pile-Up For Record Dengue Toll

Sri Lanka has suffered a record 200 deaths from dengue fever this year, the health minister said Monday, blaming a...

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Sri Lanka Deploys More Troops As Flood Toll Climbs To 180

At least 180 people have now been confirmed dead in the worst flooding to hit Sri Lanka for 14 years. More than half a...

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Sri Lanka Deploys More Troops As Flood Toll Climbs To 177

Thousands of Sri Lankan troops battled Monday to get relief supplies to nearly half a million people displaced by the...

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Sri Lanka Ends Search For Garbage Survivors As Toll Hits 32

Sri Lanka on Wednesday ended the grim search for survivors five days after a huge garbage mountain collapsed onto a...

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Hundreds Evacuated After Deadly Sri Lanka Dump Collapse

Sri Lanka has moved over 400 families to temporary shelters after tonnes of rotting garbage collapsed onto a slum on...

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Sri Lanka Garbage Mountain Buries 40 Homes, Kills Six

At least six people were killed and 10 others injured in Sri Lanka's capital Friday after a massive rubbish dump buried...

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Sri Lanka Arrests Nearly 550 Deserters In Army Clean-Up

Sri Lanka arrested nearly 550 soldiers in a single day as it reins in the mass desertion that's plagued the armed...