Mother, son killed in head-on collision

24 March 2017 06:10 pm

A mother and her one year-old son were killed and another injured when a motorcycle they were travelling on collided head-on with a bus on the New Kandy Road in Waduwegama today, Police said.

The injured were admitted to the Biyagama Hospital.

The victims were identified as 26-year-old Thalagalage Chathurangani Janakanthi and 1-year-old Hewadulige Mihindu Prabuddha, residents from Kaduwela, Police said.

They said that the motorcyclist was transferred to the Colombo National Hospital.

The driver of the bus was arrested. (Kalathma Jayawardhane)