Hundreds of people are reportedly feared dead in Sri Lanka after a massive landslide early on Wednesday morning buried a row of line houses in Haldumulla, Badulla in the island nation's upcountry.
Rescue workers, according to thge Colombo Page web site, have so far, retrieved two dead bodies from the debris.
The country's Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said the rescue operations are on with the aid of the police and the army.
The National Building Research Organization Tuesday night had issued a landslide warning given the prevailing bad weather.
It had asked the public to be alert to the possibility of landslides, rock falls and cut slope failures.
The level-2 warning covered Badulla, Bandarawela, Ella divisional secretariat divisions and Ella-Wellawaya Road, Haputale- Beragala Road, Beragala-Wellawaya Road, Badulla-Spring Valley Road, Passara-Lunugala Road and Etampitiya-Welimada Road.
