Colombo: At least 17 people were killed and 25 others injured when a passenger bus skidded off a cliff in Sri Lanka on Sunday, police said. The accident occurred in Kotmale in the Central Province when the bus driver tried to take a left turn on the hilly terrain.

A passenger bus has skidded off a cliff in Sri Lanka’s tea-growing hill country, killing 21 people and injuring at least 14 others.

The fatal bus accident occurred near Kotmale, a village in a mountainous region of south-central Sri Lanka, on May 11