Nuwara Eliya Magistrate Nalaka Sanjeewa Edirisinghe on Wednesday ordered to bail out the bus driver, who was in jail in connection to the accident at Radella, Nanu Oya, on a Rs.25,000 cash bail and three sureties each worth Rs.100,000. The case will be taken up again on March 2.
The bus driver (62) is a resident of Kuda-Uduwa, Horana. The bus carrying students from Thurstan College, Colombo were returning to Colombo from Nuwara Eliya when it collided with a van and three-wheeler at a short-cut road. Five persons of the same family who were in the van, the van driver and the three-wheeler driver were killed in the accident and 53 persons, including 41 students in the bus, sustained injuries.
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