Forty individuals have been injured after a private bus fell off a precipice along the Lindula- Nuwara Eliya road near the Vinayaga Nagar Kovil.

Police said that the accident had taken place on Wednesday morning, adding that the injured were admitted to the Lindula Hospital. The passengers in the bus are workers of a tea estate.

Police said that the the group of estate workers had been travelling from the Talawakelle town to their place of work, when the accident occurred.

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