Bus-Lorry Collided Cost One Live & 9 Wounded

One person was killed while another 9 passengers were wounded following a head-on collision involving a bus and a lorry in the Ellepola area in Balangoda.  The driver of the lorry, transporting textiles to a garment factory in Balangoda, had succumbed to injuries after being admitted to the Balangoda Hospital.  The lorry had collided with a passenger transport bus traveling from Badulla to Colombo.  Nine passengers of the bus were also admitted to the Balangoda Hospital.