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More landslide prone areas identified in Ratnapura

Ratnapura group corr.

Around eighteen or more impending landslides have been identified, since the rain disaster in the Ratnapura district, according to the latest reports of a survey conducted recently by a team of geological researchers and social services organisations in Sabaragamuwa, said Asitha Weerawardena, researcher of Waterfalls Protection Association, Sabaragamuwa.

Several unidentified and unexpected areas in the Ratnapura district, at Palawela, Elapatha, Kalawana, and Nitivigala gave way causing immense damage to housing property, taking a heavy toll of human lives amounting to 128, without reckoning the still unknown and displacing over 20,000 or more families. According to survey reports reaching the police new 'landslide prone' areas including Doloswala Kanda and Pothupitiya have been identified and spotlighted, capable of being triggered off by the possible monsoon rain, in the offing, during the year.

"Learning a lesson from the recent past, the government and authorities should take steps to move those living in and around, by 'persuasion or force' from the dangerous areas spotlighted, as it was the society and the administration had to bear the 'brunt of such disasters'," Governor, Sabaragamuwa Saliya Mathew told the Daily News.

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