(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.
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