Six passengers were killed and more than twenty people got injured when a bus traveling on the Bandarawela-Punagala Road (In the hill country)has been skidded off the road and fell in to a 300 feet deep precipice at Punagala area this evening.twenty three injured passengers are currently admitted to Bandarawela and Diyathalawa Hospitals for further treatment according to hospital sources.
Around Sixty passengers were there inside the bus when the accident has occurred according to reports.