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Indonesia Flood Death Toll Tops 800 as Sri Lanka Confirms 366 Dead

Officials say the tolls are preliminary pending ongoing searches and assessments.

Overview

  • Indonesia’s disaster agency reported 804 dead, 657 missing and about 2,600 injured after floods and landslides in North Sumatra, Aceh and West Sumatra.
  • More than one million people in Indonesia have been displaced and authorities earlier counted roughly 3,600 buildings as seriously damaged.
  • Sri Lanka’s latest UN-coordinated figures list 366 dead, 367 missing and over 1.1 million affected across all 25 districts.
  • Over 215,000 people in Sri Lanka are sheltering in 1,500 state-run centers, with more than 15,000 homes destroyed and major disruptions to rail and power networks.
  • Authorities attribute the extreme rain to cyclones Ditva and Senyar, and Sri Lanka has deployed over 20,500 troops to support rescue operations.