A bus carrying a pilgrim who was returning home from Tangalle to Siripade has run off the road and met with an accident today (14th) at around 4.30 am at Pallebedda Karuwala Gaha Junction area.
A 17-year-old youth named Hevage Tushan, a resident of Urubokka, Beralapanatara, Uduwapitiya, has died in this accident.
The other person who came in the bus stated that this young man who was said to have come sitting on the engine box of the bus jumped out of the bus and got thrown out of it and fell under the same bus.
