31 December, 2004
Situation
The following table gives a picture of the emerging extent of the disaster on a district-wide basis.
District
No. of deaths
No. of individualsdisplaced
No. of injured
No. of missing
No. of housesfully damaged
No. of camps
Colombo
65
24,500
12
54
Gampaha
7
32,000
500
10
Kalutara
170
33,794
726
31
66
Galle
3,724
44,582
2,500
7,500
150
Matara
1,061
40,500
4,000
10,000
64
Hambantota
4,500
28,785
5,000
38
Ampara
10,436
183,527
120
19,100
125
Batticaloa
2,222
285,408
1,106
600
29,000
93
Mullaitivu
1,700
24,557
2,500
1,300
4,000
19
Trincomalee
925
93,408
327
4,000
92
Jaffna
2,076
48,729
541
500
38
Puttlam
4
Vavuniya
140
99
109
2,000
10
Kilinochchi
559
49,286
880
62
22
total
27,589
889,175
12,482
4,832
79,100
781
Ampara in the East and…