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Chinese rescue workers clear a flood-affected area in Yatagampitiya, Bulathsinhala, on 2 June, 2017. Sri Lanka pledged on 31 May to tighten construction laws as the toll from heavy rains rose to 203, saying many landslide victims would have survived had their homes not been built on slopes - AFP