Anuradhapura Additional Magistrate D.L. Samarasinha has ordered Mihintale Police to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the fatal road accident in Rabawewa and submit a report to court.
The order was issued after the Magistrate considered a B-report filed by Mihintale Police in connection with the accident.
Taking into account the police submissions, the Additional Magistrate inspected the accident site in the Rabawewa area and the three buses involved in the crash.
Following the inspection, she further directed Mihintale Police to obtain separate examinations of each of the three damaged buses by a Motor Vehicle Examiner and submit the relevant reports to court.
The Additional Magistrate also visited the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital and inspected the bodies of those killed in the accident.
She directed the hospital’s Consultant Judicial Medical Officer to conduct post-mortem examinations and submit the reports to court. The bodies were ordered to be handed over to the relatives after the post-mortem examinations.
Further investigations are being conducted by Mihintale Police, under the instructions of Anuradhapura Senior Superintendent of Police Chanaka Abeysirigunawardena.
