Vehicle transporting ballot boxes collides with lorry in Watawala

7 January 2015 01:00 pm Views - 4213

A jeep belonging to the Agricultural Department that was transporting ballot boxes and election staff from the Gemini College counting centre to a polling station at Minuwandeniya in Ginigathhena collided with a lorry at Watawala causing minor injuries to four officials including the SPO.


   
The lorry was transporting firewood from Kitulgala to Hatton.



The Nuwara Eliya Asst. Commissioner of Elections immediately deployed a team of officials to transport the ballot boxes to the Ginigathnena polling station by another vehicle.(Ranjith Rajapakse) 





Pix by Ranjith Rajapaksa