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Disaster management centre loss report, 31 December 2004
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- Report issued five days after the tsunami, as described in a Daily Mirror column
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- Disaster management centre loss report, 31 December 2004 / Recorded 28,508 killed and 5,023 missing, 31 December 2004 / Indian Ocean tsunami in Sri Lanka, 26 December 2004
- A Daily Mirror column says Sri Lanka’s national disaster management centre issued a report on 31 December 2004 giving 28,508 people killed, 5,023 missing and presumed dead, 12,482 injured and 899,408 displaced from 215,804 families, and that 79,100 dwellings were destroyed. It calls the tsunami the single biggest tragedy caused by nature in post-independence Sri Lanka.20 Dec 2014 · Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka) · How Sri Lankans United Briefly After the 2004 Tsunami