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Previous fatal crashes at the same location
View(s):The location where Thursday’s tragedy on the Ella-Wellawaya road took place, has been the scene of two similar accidents previously. It is a coincidence that the previous ones were also in the first week of September.
In 1996, a group of villagers, most of them farmers from Kurunegala, set off on a pilgrimage to Kataragama after a bumper harvest.
They reached Badulla on the night of September 2, 1996 and the next day they were passing the Rawana Ella, when their bus went down a precipice killing at least 20 and wounding 60.
On September 4, 2002 in another accident a bus belonging to the Bandarawela Depot operating between Ampara and Bandarawela experienced mechanical problems close to Rawana Ella.
The bus had gone backwards and fallen down the precipice killing 23.
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