(UPDATED: 1.09 a.m.) - The death toll from the cable car accident at the Na Uyana Monastery (Nā Uyana Āranya Senāsanaya) at Pansiyagama in Melsiripura has increased to seven Buddhist monks.
At least two of the deceased monks are foreign nationals, and their bodies have been placed at the Gokarella District Hospital. The bodies of the other monks have been placed at the Kurunegala Teaching Hospital.
It is reported that 13 Buddhist monks were riding the cable car in the monastery at the time of the accident.
The seriously injured monks have now been admitted to the Kurunegala Teaching Hospital.
At least five Buddhist monks are reported dead after a cable car broke from the cable and fell down at the Na Uyana Monastery (Nā Uyana Āranya Senāsanaya) at Pansiyagama in Melsiripura, Kurunegala Hospital sources told Ada Derana.
The source said that around 13 Buddhist monks were in the cable car at the time of the accident which had occurred last night (24) at the Buddhist forest monastery in Kurunegala.
