Bus Driver Remanded Over Madurankuliya Accident

A bus travelling from Colombo to Jaffna, had attempted to overtake a three-wheeler near the 10th Mile Post in Madurankuliya when it had collided with the railing of the bridge and toppled at around 8.00am yesterday, Police said.

The death toll following a collision involving a private bus and a three-wheeler at Madurankuliya on the Colombo Puttalam road has increased to 7 people with 44 other individuals wounded and hospitalised.

The driver of the bus which was involved in a fatal accident yesterday (6) that claimed the lives of 7 civilians has been remanded till 15^th November by Puttalam Magistrates’s Court.