ECONOMYNEXT – India has provided relief suppliers to Sri Lanka from the aircraft carriers Vikrant and an escort vessel which is currently in the island, the Indian embassy said as Cyclone Ditwah killed 69 in the island and hit over 200,000 persons. More that 18,000 families were displaced by Friday evening and flood waters were continuing to rise in coastal areas downriver in Colombo and Gampaha districts were being evacuated, while the hardest hit were in the hill country and the East which are directly lashed by rains and high winds. “India has so far provided 4.5 tons of dry…
India gives relief supplies from aircraft carrier Vikrant to Sri Lanka cyclone victims
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