COLOMBO, Jul 6 (NNN-XINHUA) – Four people were killed, while three others were seriously injured, after a truck overturned along the Badulla-Soranathota road, in the Uva Province of Sri Lanka, yesterday, the police said.
Badulla police said that, the accident took place around 12:00 p.m. when the lorry was transporting construction workers.
The wounded have been admitted to a local hospital and their condition is critical, according to the police.
There has been a spate of accidents in Sri Lanka in the last few days. Around 25 people were injured after a bus collided with a lorry, transporting cement in Madampe, located in Sri Lanka’s North Western Province on Thursday morning.
Accidents involving motor vehicles are common in Sri Lanka. There were 2,557 deaths in 2,200 fatal traffic accidents in Sri Lanka, last year.– NNN-XINHUA
