The National Building Research Organisation has identified 295 zones under the threat of impending landslides in the Matara District.

Geologist M.M.C.U.B. Moremade of the NBRO said that the 83 of the locations are identified as areas under “immense threat of landslides.”

Steps have been taken to evacuate 89 families owing to this situation.

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