(COLOMBO) – Some eight people were injured after a bus toppled in central Sri Lanka on Thursday night, police and hospital officials said on Friday.
The bus packed with pilgrims from the southern part of the country toppled at a sharp curve in Nanu Oya located some 162 kilometres from the commercial capital of Colombo.
None of the injured sustained life-threatening injuries while police blamed the accident on reckless driving and poor visibility.
Thursday’s accident happened a year after a fatal multiple-vehicle collision in the same location that claimed the lives of seven people including two children and injured at least 53 others. The deadly accident was blamed on reckless driving by the bus driver that was transporting a group of students returning from a school trip to Nuwara Eliya.
Just weeks after the fatal crash, another accident took place in the same location critically injuring three persons.
