Passenger Bus Skids Off Cliff in Sri Lanka, Killing 21 People and Injuring 35

Passenger Bus Skids Off Cliff in Sri Lanka, Killing 21 People and Injuring 35
Onlookers watch as rescue workers search the debris at the site of a bus crash near the town of Kotmale, Sri Lanka, on May 11, 2025. AP Photo
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka—A passenger bus skidded off a cliff in Sri Lanka’s tea-growing hill country on Sunday, killing 21 people and injuring 35 others, a police spokesman said.

The accident occurred in the early hours of Sunday near the town of Kotmale, about 86 miles east of Colombo, the capital, in a mountainous area of central Sri Lanka, police said.