Head-on collision kills two

By Hiran Priyankara

Two persons including an eleven year old child were killed and forty four others were injured when a CTB and a private bus collided head-on at Kochchikattuwa on the Kurunegala-Puttalam road yesterday, police said. The CTB bus had been proceeding from Kalpitiya while the private bus was travelling from Kurunegala to Puttalam at the time of the accident, at around 9.30 a.m. Police said both the buses were driven at speed and the drivers had lost control.

They said that the condition of six people who were injured in the accident was critical. The injured had been admitted to the Anamaduwa, Puttalam, Chilaw and Ragama hospitals.