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Sri Lanka grapples with trauma and loss after deadly cyclone
Khaleej Times
|December 03, 2025
Nawaz Nashra recalls grabbing her three-year-old daughter, wrapping her in a bedsheet and running out of their home in central Sri Lanka as a landslide struck, triggered by a deadly cyclone that killed 465 people in the worst floods in a decade.
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Nashra and her pregnant sister, who lived with her, spent the next 20 minutes scrambling down the hillside from Alawathugoda village on Friday night, sometimes knee-deep in mud, until they reached a mosque at a lower altitude, where they spent the night.
"It was pitch dark...We could only hear a sound like thunder," she told Reuters. "The house next to ours collapsed as we watched. There was no time to warn anyone."
This story is from the December 03, 2025 edition of Khaleej Times.
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