One dead, 15 injured in bus accident

18 July 2013 05:03 am

One person was killed and 15 were injured when a lorry crashed onto a stationary bus at the Govipala Junction on the Puttalam Anuradhapura road early this morning, police said.

A group of people from Bandaragama, who had gone on a trip to Jaffna, had met with the accident when a lorry crashed onto the back of their bus which was parked at the Govipala Junction.

The injured were admitted to the Anuradhapura Hospital.(Text & Pix by Jayaratne Wickramaarachchi)