Colombo [Sri Lanka], December 7 (ANI): Tamil Nadu has dispatched around 1,000 tonnes of essential food items and clothing to Sri Lanka under Operation Sagar Bandhu, assisting in relief efforts following Cyclone Ditwah, the High Commission of India in Colombo reported on Sunday.
Approximately 300 tonnes of relief supplies arrived in Colombo on Sunday morning aboard three Indian Naval ships. The aid was handed over by High Commissioner Santosh Jha to Wasantha Samarasinghe, Sri Lanka’s Minister for Trade, Commerce, Food Security, and Cooperative Development, who expressed gratitude for India’s timely support.
The High Commission noted on X, “#OperationSagarBandhu preventing scarcity of essential food items. Tamil Nadu has sent about 1000 tonnes of essential food items and clothes to #CycloneDitwah hit under #OperationSagarBandhu.”
It added, “Of these, about 300 tonnes reached Colombo in 3 Indian Naval Ships today morning. This was handed over by High Commissioner @santjha to Hon’ble Wasantha Samarasinghe. Another ship, INS Gharial, carrying about 700 tonnes of relief material, is expected to reach Trincomalee tomorrow.”
Meanwhile, Sri Lankan authorities issued fresh landslide warnings as relentless rains continued to affect areas already devastated by Cyclone Ditwah, pushing the nationwide death toll to 627, according to Al Jazeera. The Disaster Management Centre (DMC) reported that ongoing monsoon storms were making hillsides increasingly unstable, particularly in the central highlands and northwestern midlands.
Officials said the extreme weather has compounded the suffering of over two million people—nearly 10 percent of Sri Lanka’s population—impacted by last week’s climate crisis-driven floods and landslides, the worst cyclone to strike the island in this century. (ANI)
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