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Garbage piles up in Colombo as toll hits 31
COLOMBO: Hundreds of tonnes of rotting Garbage piled up in Sri Lanka’s capital on Tuesday after the main rubbish dump was shut following an accident that killed at least 31 people.
Authorities sealed the massive 300-foot rubbish mountain on the **rtheastern edge of Colombo after it collapsed on Friday, destroying 145 homes nearby and burying victims in a Garbage landslide. Military spokesman Roshan Seneviratne said hundreds of troops were still searching for five people missing since the accident, but authorities were **t hopeful of finding any survivors four days on. Soldiers dug out a**ther body on Tuesday after**on raising the toll to 31. The Colombo Municipal Council was scrambling for new locations to dump the roughly 800 tonnes of Garbage produced every day in the capital, as crows and stray dogs picked through bags of reeking Garbage left on city streets. The council sought permission on Tuesday from a local magistrate to access a**ther tip outside the city limits, promising it would clear the four-day backlog of trash within 24 hours. In several areas of the capital, heaps of Garbage spiled onto main roads. "We are finding new locations. By **on on Wednesday I am hopeful of restoring **rmality in clearing the garbage," Commissioner V. K. A. Anura told AFP. "We will **t dump it all in one location, but at several sites." He said deaths could have been avoided if people who lived near the Garbage dump had taken his warnings two weeks ago and moved out with rent paid by the council for alternate housing. أكثر... ??????? ??????: Garbage piles up in Colombo as toll hits 31 || ??????: ahlam1399 || ??????: اسم منتداك
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