More than 800 dead or missing in Sri Lanka from Cyclone Ditwah

ECONOMYNEXT – Cyclone Ditwah has left 829 dead and missing in Sri Lanka with hardest hit in areas in the central province of the hill country of the Indian Ocean Island, official data shows. By December 03 evening 479 persons were confirmed dead and 350 were still listed as missing in Sri Lanka, with 1.61 million were hit by floods and landslides, the island’s Disaster Management Centre data said. In the more highly populated Kandy area in the central hills which includes Gampola, 118 were confirmed dead and 171 missing. In Nuwara Eliya also in the central province 89 were…

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