Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)

26 students among 31 injured in bus accident

HEAD-ON COLLISION BETWEEN SCHOOL BUS AND ANOTHER BUS

- BY CHATURANGA SAMARAWICK­RAMA AND PUSHPAKUMA­RA JAYARATNE

Thirty one people including 26 schoolchil­dren were injured when a ‘Sisu Seriya’ school bus and a bus transporti­ng garment employees at Thalgodapi­tiya in Gokarella collided head-on last morning, Police said.

They said the school bus was travelling towards Kurunegala from Melsiripur­a while the other bus was travelling from Ibbagamuwa to Dambulla. The buses collided when the school bus attempted to overtake another vehicle.

The injured students and three badly injured garment employees and the two bus drivers were admitted to the Kurunegala Teaching Hospital.

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