Two killed, 11 injured in Nittambuwa mishap [December 10 2014]

Two persons including a one and half year old boy killed and 11 others sustained injuries when a van collided head on with a lorry in Nittambuwa on Kandy Road early this morning, the police said.

The van transporting 13 passengers bound for Colombo from Kandy had collided with the lorry heading for the opposite direction.

Eight of the injured passengers were rushed to Kegalle Hospital and five others were admitted to Warakapola Hospital. The boy and a 50-year-old man succumbed to their injuries at the Warakapola Hospital.

Nittambuwa Police took the lorry, its driver and his assistant into custody and will be produced before Attanagalla Magistrate today.