SL woman killed in Beirut

25 June 2011 02:37 am

A Sri Lankan woman was killed Friday when she was struck by a car as she crossed the coastal highway north of Beirut, security sources told The Daily Star.

The accident took place at 9:30 a.m. on the road between Dora and Dbayyeh, when the woman, who was not identified, tried to cross the road in “sudden fashion,” the sources said.

The sources said the driver was unable to avoid the woman as she crossed, and her body was taken to the morgue at Baabda Public Hospital.

The Daily Star