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Passenger bus skids off cliff in Sri Lanka; 21 dead, 35 hurt
The New Indian Express Jeypore
|May 12, 2025
A passenger bus skidded off a cliff in Sri Lanka's tea-growing hill country on Sunday, killing 21 people and injuring 35 others, a police spokesman said.
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The accident occurred in the early hours of Sunday near the town of Kotmale, about 140 kilometers (86 miles) east of Colombo, the capital, in a mountainous area of central Sri Lanka, police said.
This story is from the May 12, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Jeypore.
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