Passenger bus skids off a cliff in Sri Lanka, killing 21 people and injuring 35
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 140 kilometers (86 miles) east of Colombo, the capital, in a mountainous area of central Sri Lanka , police said.
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