The government has also announced that 1,195 people and 3,484 elephants have been killed in the past decade due to the worsening human-elephant conflict on the island.Killing or harming elephants is a ...

Sri Lanka Police arrested a suspect accused of sabotaging a railway track near Wanawasala by allegedly removing lock bars and plates, causing a Colombo-bound train to derail. One carriage overturned ...

Seven Buddhist monks, including an Indian national, died when a cable-operated rail cart overturned at a forest monastery in northwestern Sri Lanka, police said on Thursday. Six others were injured in ...

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka in 2025 recorded a total of 2,562 fatal road accidents, compared to 2,287 in 2024, Xinhua reported.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A passenger bus veered off a road and plunged into a precipice in a mountainous region in Sri Lanka, killing 15 people and injuring 16 others, a police spokesman said Friday.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No passengers were injured in the accident, which occurred some 110 miles by road east of the capital Colombo. Railway authorities ...