{"id":209033,"date":"2026-02-06T05:22:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=209033"},"modified":"2026-02-06T05:22:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:22:05","slug":"cyclone-ditwah-sri-lanka-floods-death-toll-climbs-to-123-president-dissanayake-declares-state-of-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=209033","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Ditwah: Sri Lanka floods death toll climbs to 123; President Dissanayake declares state of emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The extreme weather system has destroyed nearly 15,000 houses across Sri Lanka, sending almost 44,000 people to state-run temporary shelters, the country&#8217;s Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said on Saturday. Cyclone Ditwah was heading towards India to the north on Saturday&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/world\/report-cyclone-ditwah-latest-news-updates-sri-lanka-floods-landslides-death-toll-climbs-to-123-president-anura-kumara-dissanayake-declares-state-of-public-emergency-casualties-colombo-3191113\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The extreme weather system has destroyed nearly 15,000 houses across Sri Lanka, sending almost 44,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ksa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209033-cyclone-ditwah-sri-lanka-floods-death-toll-climbs-to-123-president-dissanayake-declares-st69857a8fc5042.jpg",426,320,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209033-cyclone-ditwah-sri-lanka-floods-death-toll-climbs-to-123-president-dissanayake-declares-st69857a8fc5042-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209033-cyclone-ditwah-sri-lanka-floods-death-toll-climbs-to-123-president-dissanayake-declares-st69857a8fc5042-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209033-cyclone-ditwah-sri-lanka-floods-death-toll-climbs-to-123-president-dissanayake-declares-st69857a8fc5042.jpg",426,320,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209033-cyclone-ditwah-sri-lanka-floods-death-toll-climbs-to-123-president-dissanayake-declares-st69857a8fc5042.jpg",426,320,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209033-cyclone-ditwah-sri-lanka-floods-death-toll-climbs-to-123-president-dissanayake-declares-st69857a8fc5042.jpg",426,320,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209033-cyclone-ditwah-sri-lanka-floods-death-toll-climbs-to-123-president-dissanayake-declares-st69857a8fc5042.jpg",426,320,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209033-cyclone-ditwah-sri-lanka-floods-death-toll-climbs-to-123-president-dissanayake-declares-st69857a8fc5042.jpg",426,320,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209033-cyclone-ditwah-sri-lanka-floods-death-toll-climbs-to-123-president-dissanayake-declares-st69857a8fc5042.jpg",426,320,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/209033-cyclone-ditwah-sri-lanka-floods-death-toll-climbs-to-123-president-dissanayake-declares-st69857a8fc5042.jpg",426,320,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=27\" rel=\"category\">Saudi Arabia<\/a>","tag_info":"Saudi Arabia","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/209034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}