By Ranga Sirilal and Shihar Aneez COLOMBO (Reuters) - Around 150 people are feared dead after more than three days of heavy rain triggered two landslides in central Sri Lanka, disaster officials said on Wednesday as rescuers stopped work after recovering more than a dozen bodies. Rescue efforts have focused on the town of Aranayaka, 100 km (60 miles) northeast of the capital, Colombo, where three villages were buried late on Tuesday in the central district of Kegalle. "As at 1800 hours, 134 are still missing and 14 bodies recovered so far from the landslide site in Aranayaka," Major General Sudantha Ranasinghe, officer in charge of rescue operation told Reuters.
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