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Sri Lanka Cyclone Ditwah damage estimated at US$4.1bn
Damage to railways estimated at US$1.7bn
Summary
Cyclone Ditwah, which struck Sri Lanka in late November, has inflicted an estimated US$4.1 billion in direct physical damage to buildings and contents, agriculture, and critical infrastructure, according to a World Bank Group Global Rapid Post‐Disaster Damage Estimation (GRADE) report released today (22).
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People
- Gevorg Sargsyan
Organisations
- World Bank2
- External Resources Department
- National Planning Department
- Disaster Management Centre
- World Bank Group
- Government of
- Treasury
Places
- Kandy District2
- Sri Lanka2
- Kandy2
- Central Province
- Nuwara Eliya
- Maldives
- Puttalam
- Badulla
Keywords
- cyclone2
- damage2
- buildings
- estimated
- contents
- physical
- railways
- recovery
- ditwah
- grade
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