COLOMBO: Sri Lanka will use artificial intelligence to monitor bus drivers and make seat belts mandatory on public transport, a government minister said on Wednesday (May 14), after the country's worst bus crash in two decades killed 23 people.

A passenger bus skidded off a cliff in Sri Lanka’s tea-growing hill country on Sunday, killing 21 people and injuring 35 others, a police spokesman said. The accident occurred in the early hours of Sunday near the town of Kotmale,

Police launched an investigation to ascertain whether the driver's recklessness or a technical fault of the bus caused the crash.