{"id":153415,"date":"2025-12-03T17:40:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T00:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=153415"},"modified":"2025-12-03T17:40:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T00:40:48","slug":"sri-lankas-death-toll-due-to-cyclone-ditwah-climbs-to-479","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/12\/03\/sri-lankas-death-toll-due-to-cyclone-ditwah-climbs-to-479\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s death toll due to Cyclone Ditwah climbs to 479"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/adaderanaenglish.s3.amazonaws.com\/1764767112-death-6.png\" alt=\"Sri Lanka\u2019s death toll due to Cyclone Ditwah climbs to 479\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The death toll due to the adverse weather conditions experienced in the country in the past few days caused by Cyclone Ditwah has increased to 479 as of 4:00 p.m. today (03), the Disaster Management Center (DMC) has confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The DMC also reported that at least 350 individuals still remain missing as search and relief operations continue across multiple districts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The death toll due to the adverse weather conditions experienced in the country in the past few days caused by Cyclone Ditwah has increased to 479 as of 4:00 p.m. today (03), the Disaster Management Center (DMC) has confirmed. The DMC also reported that at least 350 individuals still remain missing as search [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153416,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153415\/revisions\/153416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}