AT least 21 people have died after a bus skidded and fell down a mountainside.

Officials said that 14 others were injured during the horror cliff-side plummet in Kotmale, Sri Lanka on Sunday.

Shocking TV footage showed the bus lying overturned at the bottom of a precipice.

Recovery workers and civilians helped remove the injured survivors from the wreckage.

The driver survived the horrifying ordeal, and was taken to hospital for treatment.

Prasanna Gunasena, the Deputy Minister of Transport and Highways, reported that the accident resulted in the loss of 21 lives, with an additional 14 individuals receiving medical care at different hospitals.

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