Reuters journalists injured in crash
Gamini Obeysekara
POLONNARUWA: A team of journalists attached to Reuters were
injured when the van in which they were travelling collided with a
tractor transporting earth at Poonai last morning.
The journalists were on their way to Batticaloa when the accident
occurred.
The injured Peter Apps of the Reuters London Office, photographers
Buddhika Weerasinghe and Jeewantha and van driver Asitha Karunaratne
were air lifted to the Polonnaruwa Hospital. Apps who was in a critical
condition was later transferred to the Apollo Hospital in Colombo. |