19th anniversary of 2004 tsunami falls today
THE ISLAND LK NEWS
2023/12/26
A two minutes’ silence would be observed countrywide today from 9.25 a.m. to 9.27 a.m. in memory of all who lost their lives in the 2004 tsunami and other natural disasters in Sri Lanka, Director General of Disaster Management Centre, Major General (retd.) Sudantha Ranasinghe said.
He said that a new programme to raise public awareness of tsunami dangers would commence from today in view of the National Safety Day.
Maj Gen Ranasinghe said the relevant awareness programme would be carried out by using a caller tune ringtone of mobile phones.