Event
Cyclone Ditwah, November 2025
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Details
- What
- Rain, floods and landslides across the island, according to ANI
- Status
- The Disaster Management Centre reported 481 confirmed deaths and 345 missing on 4 December 2025; Daily Mirror, cited by ANI, reported 627 deaths and 190 missing on 7 December 2025. Later figures have not been checked
Connections (2)
- Disaster Management Centre / Reported the toll: 481 dead, 345 missing on 4 December 2025 / Cyclone Ditwah, November 2025
- News 1st reports, citing the Disaster Management Center’s situation report, 481 confirmed deaths and 345 missing across 25 districts, with 509,680 families and 1,814,534 people affected; Kandy had the most deaths at 118.4 Dec 2025 · News 1st · Sri Lanka: 481 Dead, 1.8 Million Affected by Cyclone Ditwah
- ANI reports, citing Daily Mirror and the Disaster Management Centre, that the death toll had risen to 627 with 190 missing, and that all 25 districts and 2,179,138 people from 611,530 families were affected. The headline says several hundred were missing; the article text gives 190.7 Dec 2025 · ANI (via The Tribune) · Death toll rises to 627, several hundred missing after Cyclone Ditwah’s fury in Sri Lanka
- Anura Kumara Dissanayake / Declared a state of emergency, 29 November 2025 / Cyclone Ditwah, November 2025
- Al Jazeera reports that he declared a state of emergency on Saturday to deal with the aftermath of the cyclone and appealed for international aid. It gives 334 confirmed dead at that point, with nearly 400 missing, according to the Disaster Management Centre.30 Nov 2025 · Al Jazeera · ‘Neighbourhoods buried under mud’: Sri Lanka floods death toll reaches 334
- Tamil Guardian reports public anger at the government’s handling, including a 28 November public-sector holiday and gaps in Tamil-language warnings, and says he declared the emergency after pressure from the public and opposition parties. It also reports a Disaster Management Centre deputy director saying the public had been informed “since the 22nd” (the article does not name the month) and that a lack of translators hampered Tamil communications at national level. These are the outlet’s and its sources’ accounts, not findings of an inquiry.2 Dec 2025 · Tamil Guardian · Sri Lankan government faces storm of criticism as Cyclone Ditwah leaves island reeling