Twenty one passengers were hospitalized after two buses had collided head-on at Radawadunna in Nittambuwa on the Colombo-Kurunegala main road this morning, police said.

The accident had occurred when a CTB bus plying from Colombo to Jaffna and a private bus travelling from Kurunegala to Colombo had collided head-on.

The injured were admitted to the Wathupitiwala hospital.