Bus crash kills 14 in Sri Lanka Afp, Colombo

A crowded bus crashed into a precipice in central Sri Lanka yesterday, killing the driver and 13 passengers in the worst road accident in 16 years, police said. 

The privately-owned bus was travelling through the hilly region of Passara when it went off the road and crashed as the driver swerved to avoid an oncoming truck at a narrow pass, police said.

Five of the dead passengers were women and eight were men, police said, while another 30 people sustained injuries.