Sri Lanka, Oct. 24 -- One person was killed while eight others, including six women from the same family, were injured and hospitalised after a van collided head-on with a tipper truck in the Vahaneri area in Valaichchenai on the Batticaloa-Polonnaruwa main road.

The injured were admitted to Valaichchenai Base Hospital and then transferred to Batticaloa hospital for further treatment.

However, one of the injured passengers, a 74-year-old resident of Welikanda, had succumbed to injuries later.

This accident had occurred last evening (23) when the van was trying to overtake a bowser travelling in the same direction, and collided head-on with a tipper truck vehicle coming from the opposite direction, police said.

The driver of the tipper...