Cyclone Ditwah has left 334 people dead in Sri Lanka, as per the data issued by Sri Lanka’s Disaster Management Centre (DMC) on Sunday evening. The disastrous cyclone has wreaked havoc in the island nation, with another 370 missing in the catastrophic floods and landslides caused by Ditwah and extreme weather conditions since November 16.

Meanwhile, India’s National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel, along with the Indian Air Force(IAF), continue to assist Sri Lankan authorities to save precious lives on a war footing under Operation Sagar Bandhu, launched by New Delhi to help Colombo in times of crisis.

India lifted over 300 stranded Indian nationals in Sri Lanka through the Indian Air Force (IAF) aircraft on Sunday and brought them to Thiruvananthapuram, a Defence spokesperson said.

The Air Force’s IL-76 and C-130J aircraft, which had been dispatched to Sri Lanka to deliver relief materials after the cyclone disaster, evacuated stranded Indian nationals from Colombo and transported them to Thiruvananthapuram.