Lady doctor and another woman killed in road tragedy

A lady doctor and another woman were killed when the double cab they were travelling in crashed into a container parked on the roadside. The seriously injured driver was rushed to the Maho District Hospital and then to the Kurunegala Teaching Hospital. According to witnesses the driver appeared to have lost control of the vehicle and veered off the road before crashing into the container at Udagama in Maho along the Anuradhapura – Kurunegala road last morning. The lady doctor Gowrie Nandakumar (40) was attached to the the Vavuniya hospital. The other woman has still not been identified