Colombo April 18: The deaths in a disastrous collapse of a rubbish dump in Sri Lanka increases at least 29 on Monday.
Rescuers continued digging through heaps of mud and rubbish that collapsed on to a clutch of homes near a rubbish dump just outside Sri Lanka's capital, killing at least 29 people and possibly burying dozens more, according to the source.
Hundreds of people had been living in the working-class neighbourhood on the fringe of the towering dump in Meetotamulla, near Colombo, when a huge mound collapsed on Friday night during a celebration for the local new year, damaging at least 180 homes.