The bus, carrying nine people, sank on the night of March 30 in a ditch filled with melt water in the Altai Territory. According to the regional headquarters of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the incident occurred in the Volchikhinsky district.

The sunken bus was operating a flight from Barnaul to Klyuchi. Earlier, an incident was reported in the Kaliningrad region, where a bus fell under the rotating tower of an excavator. The crew of the fourth detachment participated in the work, firefighters assisted in the evacuation of passengers.