Overview
- Official data list 355 dead and 366 missing in Sri Lanka, with more than half a million people affected as floodwaters and landslides block access to hard‑hit central and lowland areas.
- Authorities say train and flight services have resumed even as schools remain closed, and President Anura Kumara Dissanayake describes the crisis as the country’s largest and most challenging.
- India’s Operation Sagar Bandhu is flying relief and evacuating people, with IAF helicopters rescuing stranded groups in Kotmale, INS Vikrant deploying Chetak sorties, NDRF teams on the ground, and about 400 Indian nationals airlifted home.
- The system has weakened into a deep depression near the Tamil Nadu–Puducherry coast, with IMD warnings for heavy rain and rough seas; at least three rain‑related deaths were reported in Tamil Nadu and localized disruptions continue.
- Wider regional storms have pushed combined deaths across Indonesia, Thailand and other countries into the high hundreds with millions affected, and Pakistan says its planned aid flights to Sri Lanka were delayed after India denied airspace access.