A third student from the General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University (KDU) has succumbed to injuries sustained in the fatal bus accident on November 1 in Badulla, raising the death toll to three.
The victim, 24-year-old Kayilanathan Sinthujan from Kantharmadam, Jaffna, passed away today (23) while receiving treatment at the University Hospital KDU (UHKDU). He is an old boy of Hindu College Jaffna.
The accident on November 1 claimed the lives of two individuals on the spot and injured 39 others when a bus carrying a group of KDU students overturned on Dunhinda Road in Badulla.
The deceased included two female students from the Southern Campus of KDU. The students were on a field trip when the bus struck a curb and toppled. (NewsWire)
