COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has moved over 400 families to temporary shelters after tonnes of rotting garbage collapsed onto a slum on Friday, killing 26 people.

Some 145 homes were destroyed when the 300-foot rubbish mountain came crashing down and police say many more buildings were damaged and could collapse at any time.

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