Sri Lanka, Sept. 5 -- Fifteen people, including the Tangalle Urban Council Secretary, 12 council employees, two children, and the bus driver, were killed in a bus accident on the Ella-Wellawaya main road last night, Deputy Minister of Local Government Ruwan Senarath said. A female passenger remains missing.

The Badulla Teaching Hospital confirmed that the bus driver and two children were among the deceased.

Police said the bus, carrying Tangalle Urban Council employees and their families on a return trip from Ella, veered off the road and fell approximately 1000 feet down a cliff. A total of 30 passengers, including the driver, were on board at the time of the accident.

Preliminary investigations indicate that the group had been return...