{"id":75412,"date":"2025-11-30T18:28:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T09:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/30\/sri-lanka-capital-colombo-hit-by-floods-as-cyclone-death-toll-rises"},"modified":"2025-11-30T18:28:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T09:28:31","slug":"sri-lankas-capital-hit-by-floods-as-cyclone-death-toll-nears-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75412","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s capital hit by floods as cyclone death toll nears 200"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of people still missing after heavy rain and mudslides in country\u2019s deadliest natural disaster for years<\/p>\n<p>Entire areas of Sri Lanka\u2019s capital are flooded after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/28\/death-toll-sri-lanka-hit-by-rising-flood-waters\">powerful cyclone<\/a> triggered heavy rains and mudslides across the island, with authorities reporting nearly 200 dead and dozens more missing.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the extent of the damage in the country\u2019s worst-affected central region was slowly becoming clear on Sunday as relief workers cleared roads blocked by fallen trees and mudslides.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/30\/sri-lanka-capital-colombo-hit-by-floods-as-cyclone-death-toll-rises\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of people still missing after heavy rain and mudslides in country\u2019s deadliest natural disaster for yearsEntire areas of Sri Lanka\u2019s capital are flooded after a powerful cyclone triggered heavy rains and mudslides across the island, with author&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1554,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65,455,313,61,674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-extreme-weather","category-flooding","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75413,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75412\/revisions\/75413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}