NINE DISTRICTS INCLUDING COLOMBO PUT ON HIGH ALERT

NBRO ISSUES LANDSLIDE WARNINGS

Landslide warnings have been issued for the Kalutara, Kegalle, Ratnapura, Kurunegala, Nuwara-eliya, Badulla, Galle, Colombo and Gampaha Districts that have experienced rainfall figures exceeding 100mm in the past 24 hours, the National Building Research Organization (NBRO) said.

The organisation requests the public living in these areas to evacuate and to get to a safer location to avoid the risk of becoming victims of landslides, earth-slips, falling rocks etc.

It said people living in and around mountainous areas such as Agalawatte, Bulathsinhala, Palinda Nuwara, Walallawita and Ingiriya in the Kalutara District, Dehiowita, Deraniyagala, Yatiyanthota, Aranayaka, Rambukkana, Kegalle, Bulathkohupitiya, Ruwanwella, Warakapola in the Kegalle District should also be watchful.

People living in Eheliyagoda, Kuruwita, Ratnapura and Elapatha in the Ratnapura District, Rideegama, Ibbagamuwa, Mawathagama and Mallawapitiya in the Kurunegala District and Ambagamuwa in the Nuwara-eliya District and Haldummulla in the Badulla District were also asked to be vary of possible landslides if the rains continued. Further, it said people living in Elpitiya, Galle and the Four Gravets in the Galle District and Seethawaka in the Colombo District and all susceptible areas previously identified in the Gampaha District should also stay alert for possible threats.