SRI LANKA — LANDSLIDE WARNINGS WIDEN TO 14 DISTRICTS, SIX RED

14 districts are on landslide alert and six are red, with the highest level for Kandy, Kegalle and Nuwara Eliya, after more than 300 mm of rain in 72 hours. About 35 minor slope failures were reported in three days, and flood warnings were extended. (Handled with care.)

2 turning points on record since Sep 24.

Rain on hills already full — interior Odisha's red rain falls on monsoon-soaked Eastern Ghats slopes, and Sri Lanka's hill country has taken more than 300 mm in 72 hours under red landslide warnings.

Communicators noted that forecasters have widened landslide warnings across many districts because of ongoing rainfall, issuing the highest-level alerts and evacuation orders for parts of two districts while placing others under warning. Their reports align with the official expansion of alerts to fourteen districts, six of them at the top tier, and add that eight districts remain under warnings amid the continued rain. This highlights how persistent wet conditions have sustained and broadened the risks beyond the initial alerts.

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