No passengers were injured in the accident, which occurred some 110 miles by road east of the capital Colombo. Railway authorities said an investigation was underway, and engineers were trying to put ...

Sri Lanka’s Up Country is a landscape of forested peaks and rolling hills, their slopes striped with tea plantations and ...

COLOMBO – A railway union strike stopped most trains across Sri Lanka on Wednesday, leaving tens of thousands of passengers to brave the few dangerously overcrowded trains that kept running or be ...

COLOMBO, Sri LankaCOLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka’s government deployed army troops at railroad stations as railway employees continued with their strike that paralyzed train services across the ...

SRI LANKA — A train collided with a herd of elephants in Sri Lanka on Wednesday night, killing at least six of them, according to Sri Lanka police. No passengers were injured, but wildlife veterinary ...

Colombo — A Sri Lankan express train killed an elephant and was derailed on Tuesday despite safety measures introduced after the country's worst wildlife railway accident three months ago on the same ...

COLOMBO – Sri Lanka's government deployed army troops at railroad stations as railway employees continued with their strike that paralyzed train services across the country for a second day Wednesday, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A railway union ...