{"id":42100,"date":"2025-05-11T02:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T07:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=42100"},"modified":"2025-05-11T04:34:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T09:34:21","slug":"passenger-bus-skids-off-cliff-in-sri-lanka-killing-8-and-injuring-over-30-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=42100","title":{"rendered":"Passenger bus skids off cliff in Sri Lanka, killing 8 and injuring over 30 others"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">COLOMBO, Sri Lanka &#8212;&nbsp;A passenger bus skidded off a cliff in Sri Lanka\u2019s tea-growing hill country on Sunday, killing eight people and injuring more than 30 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">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&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/sri-lanka\">Sri Lanka<\/a>, police said. The driver was injured and among those admitted to the hospital for treatment, police added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The bus was operated by a state-run travel company, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Deadly bus accidents are common in Sri Lanka, especially in the mountainous regions, often due to reckless driving and poorly maintained and narrow roads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/passenger-bus-skids-off-cliff-sri-lanka-killing-121682075\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLOMBO, Sri Lanka &#8212;&nbsp;A passenger bus skidded off a cliff in Sri Lanka\u2019s tea-growing hill country on Sunday, killing eight people and injuring more than 30 others. 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":42101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[27401,3689,27400],"class_list":["post-42100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-lanka","tag-passenger","tag-sri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42102,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42100\/revisions\/42102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}