One person was killed and several others injured when a bus suffered brake failure and collided with another bus in the Nuwara Eliya-Haggala area, police said.
The dead man was a 46-year-old resident of the Ratnapura area. Police said the bus that lost its brakes had arrived in Haggala carrying an excursion party. It collided with a bus travelling from Haggala towards Welimada.
Several other people were injured in the collision.
A high-risk stretch
The Nuwara Eliya-Haggala road runs through steep hill country, where sustained descents place heavy and repeated demand on brakes. Brake failure on such gradients gives drivers little scope to recover, and vehicles carrying excursion groups are typically fully loaded, adding to the strain.
The crash comes during a heavy weekend on the roads, with the Police Media Division reporting five deaths in a single 24-hour period across the island on Saturday.
Hiru News did not name the deceased, give the number of injured, say which operator either bus belonged to, or report whether anyone had been taken into custody. It also did not state the time of the collision.
At the time of writing, on Sunday night, no other verified Sri Lankan newsroom had published its own report of the crash.
