Two British women stranded by landslides in Sri Lanka’s tea mountains are running out of food and water, the daughter of one of them has said, as officials reported that the death toll of Cyclone Ditwah has reached 465.

Melanie Watters, 54, and her friend Janine Reid, 55, both from London, were being driven through the mountains from Kandy in central Sri Lanka on Thursday when the road in front of them was swamped, sending a bus nearby over a cliff edge.

The women’s own car was stuck in a ditch and at risk off being washed away, said Watters’ daughter, Katie Beeching, but the friends and their driver had to batten down in the vehicle overnight in worsening conditions. Sri Lanka and Indonesia deploy militaries as Asia floods death toll passes 1,100 Read more

The two women had since f

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