Now, Colombo faces threat of a garbage bomb
Sri Lanka's biggest garbage mountain, growing in height day by day, at Bloemendhal Road, Colombo 13 has become a menace. It could explode if fire spreads to the methane gas emanating from the lower levels of the dump, the Colombo Municipal Council Public Health Department warned yesterday. A recent fire in a section of the dump had aggravated an already bad health hazard, residents of the area complained yesterday (26).