SRI LANKA – A Sri Lanka bus accident have left at least 21 people dead and over 35 injured when a passenger bus plunged off a cliff in Sri Lanka’s Central province on Sunday. The injured were treated in local hospitals.
The police said that the bus was carrying 75 passengers from the southern pilgrimage site of Kataragama to the northwestern town of Kurunegala when it plunged 100 meters off a cliff, according to the Free Press Journal.
The police added that investigation into the cause of the accident has been launched.
Sri Lanka Road Accident Statistics
Road accidents are frequent in the South Asian island nation, with official data showing that buses are often involved.
Nearly 600 Sri Lankans have died in 565 fatal road accidents so far this year, according to police data.
According to government data cited by Newswire, a person dies in a road accident every three hours in Sri Lanka.
