Buddhist monks carry coffins of fellow monks during a funeral ceremony at the Na Uyana Monastery in Melsiripura on Sept 27, 2025. Eight Buddhist monks, including three foreigners, were killed when their cable-pulled rail car snapped and crashed down a mountainside in north-western Sri Lanka, police said. - Photo: AFP
COLOMBO: A Buddhist monk injured in a cable car crash in Sri Lanka died on Sunday (Sept 28), raising the death toll to eight in the worst accident of its kind, police said.
Seven monks, including three foreigners, were killed instantly when their cabin plunged down the mountainside near a forest monastery in the northwestern Kurunegala district on Wednesday night.
