{"id":603035,"date":"2025-11-30T09:08:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T09:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/603035\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T09:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T09:08:15","slug":"sri-lanka-flood-death-toll-rises-to-159-with-many-more-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/603035\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka flood death toll rises to 159, with many more missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The highest number of deaths was reported in Kandy and Badulla, where many areas remain cut off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We lost two people in our village&#8230; others are sheltering in a temple and a house that is still standing,&#8221; said Saman Kumara from the Badulla village of Maspanna.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We can&#8217;t leave the village, and no one can come in because all roads are blocked by landslides. There is no food, and we are running out of clean water,&#8221; he told News Center website by telephone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Victims include 11 residents of an elderly care home that was flooded in the north-central district of Kurunegala on Saturday afternoon, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sixty-nine people were rescued from a bus that became submerged in water in Anuradhapura.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking after the 24-hour rescue effort, one passenger told the AFP news agency how the navy had to help them climb onto the roof of a nearby building. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We were very lucky&#8230; while we were on the roof, part of it collapsed&#8230; three women fell into the water, but they were helped back onto the roof,&#8221; WM Shantha said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The government has issued an appeal for international aid and urged Sri Lankans abroad to donate money to support affected communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The highest number of deaths was reported in Kandy and Badulla, where many areas remain cut off. &#8220;We&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-603035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115637865924219906","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}