Colombo (AsiaNews) - Sri Lanka's railway system - which covers about ... 72 per cent of the locomotives are more than 40 years old, raising serious concerns about safety and efficiency.

In response to the accident, Sri Lankan authorities have reiterated safety guidelines, urging travellers to avoid leaning out ...

A Chinese tourist in Sri Lanka was critically injured after she leaned out of a moving train to take photos and hit her head ...

Daredevil holidaymakers who dice with death while travelling on railways overseas are hit with travel safety warning by ...

More than a decade ago, Thushari, a young female elephant, born wild and free, would roam the landscapes of Galgamuwa in ...

On Wednesday, Feb. 19, Olga Perminova was traveling on the Podi Menike rail line when ... which houses Sri Lanka's famous Nine Arch Bridge — an over-100-year-old structure that the Visit Ella ...

Sri Lanka’s state-owned Daily News reported Thursday. The Meenagaya train hit the herd at the 140 km mark between Minneriya and Galoya railway stations at around 11:30 pm Wednesday, Daily News ...

As 9-year-old Thushari and her family approached ... Thushari’s fate was neither the first nor the last. Sri Lanka’s railway tracks continue to claim the lives of wild elephants, with the ...

Perminova was part of a Russia tour group in Sri Lanka, according to Metro and the U.S. Sun, which shared an image of the woman apparently leaning off the side of the train in a pink dress before the ...