DMC Director General Pradeep Kodippili stated that four deaths have been reported so far due to various weather-related disasters, while 387 houses have been partially damaged.
Meanwhile, Cabinet Spokesman Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa announced during today’s Cabinet media briefing that the government expects to provide compensation of Rs. 1 million for each death caused by disaster-related incidents.
According to the Department of Meteorology, the low-pressure area currently located near the northern coast is expected to intensify into a depression within the next 12 hours and move across the northern Tamil Nadu coast