{"id":399572,"date":"2025-09-05T09:03:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T09:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/399572\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T09:03:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T09:03:16","slug":"fifteen-people-killed-after-bus-crashes-off-1000ft-cliff-in-sri-lanka-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/399572\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifteen people killed after bus crashes off 1,000ft cliff in Sri Lanka | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fifteen people have been killed in Sri Lanka after a passenger bus veered off a 1,000ft cliff. <\/p>\n

A further 16 people have been injured, including five children, a police spokesman said.<\/p>\n

The crash took place on a mountain road near the town of Wellawaya, around 280km east of the capital Colombo, on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

The spokesman said an initial police investigation has revealed the bus was travelling at a high speed when its driver lost control.<\/p>\n

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\n A map showing the town of Wellawaya, in Sri Lanka, where the bus crashed<\/p>\n

He added that the bus crashed into another vehicle and the road’s guardrails, before toppling off the cliff.<\/p>\n

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Local television footage showed the severely damaged bus lying at the bottom of the precipice as rescue crews – including soldiers, police officers and volunteers – removed the injured people throughout the night.<\/p>\n

Deadly bus accidents are common in Sri Lanka<\/a><\/strong>, especially in the island nation’s mountainous regions, often due to poorly maintained and narrow roads, and reckless driving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fifteen people have been killed in Sri Lanka after a passenger bus veered off a 1,000ft cliff. A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-399572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115150887585007425","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}