{"id":4978,"date":"2025-09-25T09:27:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T03:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.lankanewsnetwork.com\/?p=4978"},"modified":"2025-09-25T09:27:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T03:57:24","slug":"cable-car-accident-at-na-uyana-monastery-several-injured-monks-continue-to-receive-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.lankanewsnetwork.com\/?p=4978","title":{"rendered":"Cable car accident at Na Uyana Monastery: Several injured monks continue to receive treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several Buddhist monks injured in the cable car accident at the Na Uyana Monastery (N\u0101 Uyana \u0100ranya Sen\u0101sanaya) at Pansiyagama in Melsiripura continue to receive treatment at the Kurunegala and Polgahawela hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>The accident reportedly occurred at around 9:00 p.m. yesterday (24), as the monks were returning to their meditation huts after completing a religious ceremony held at the offering ground (P\u016bj\u0101 Bh\u016bmiya).<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the accident, 13 monks were inside the cable car. Among them, seven monks lost their lives.<\/p>\n<p>The injured monks were admitted to the Kurunegala Teaching Hospital and the Polgahawela Hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>It is also reported that five monks managed to jump out of the cable car at the time of the accident, sustaining only minor injuries and thereby saving their lives, while four others suffered serious injuries and are currently hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p>It has been reported that among the deceased monks, three were foreign nationals.<\/p>\n<p>Police suspect that the accident occurred due to the breaking of a support cable on the cable car that was carrying the monks up a hill.<\/p>\n<p>Pansiyagama Police are conducting further investigations into the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several Buddhist monks injured in the cable car accident at the Na Uyana Monastery (N\u0101 Uyana \u0100ranya Sen\u0101sanaya) at Pansiyagama in Melsiripura continue to receive treatment at the Kurunegala and Polgahawela hospitals. The accident reportedly occurred at around 9:00 p.m. yesterday (24), as the monks were returning to their meditation huts after completing a religious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leadstories","category-local"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cable car accident at Na Uyana Monastery: Several injured monks continue to receive treatment - LANKA NEWS NETWORK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/english.lankanewsnetwork.com\/?p=4978\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cable car accident at Na Uyana Monastery: Several injured monks continue to receive treatment - LANKA NEWS NETWORK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Several Buddhist monks injured in the cable car accident at the Na Uyana Monastery (N\u0101 Uyana \u0100ranya Sen\u0101sanaya) at Pansiyagama in Melsiripura continue to receive treatment at the Kurunegala and Polgahawela hospitals. 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