A bus en route from the Volga area city of
Samara to Izhevsk in Urals overturned after colliding with a truck on Saturday
night.
KAZAN, July
2. /TASS/. According to preliminary information, at least ten people were killed
when a passenger bus collided with a Kamaz truck near the city of Zainsk in
Russia’s Volga area Republic of Tatarstan, local officials said on Sunday.
The local
emergencies service said that at about 00:40 Moscow time on Sunday they were
informed that a bus en route from the Volga area city of Samara to Izhevsk in
Urals overturned after colliding with a truck. Both vehicles caught fire.
"According
to preliminary information, ten people died. A team of investigators is working
on the site," a spokesperson for the republic’s interior ministry said.
The driver
of the bus survived and was taken to police for questioning.
A spokesman
for Tatarstan’s health ministry said that "at least 23 people were
wounded, ten of them died on site, including two children."
Four of the
injured are in serious condition, eight were rushed to hospital with moderately
severe injuries. One person was slightly injured and is receiving out-patient
treatment.
A municipal
state of emergency was declared in the nearby Zainsky District.
Tatarstan Prime Minister Alexei Pesoshin and Tatarstan Emergencies Ministry Department Chief Rafis Habibullin started off for the scene of the accident early on Sunday.
Source: ITAR-TASS 02-07-2017
