According to the website of the department, a minibus crashed into a truck near a traffic light.

“At night, at 233 km of the R-257 Yenisei highway, the driver of a Toyota minibus, which was heading from Krasnoyarsk to Abakan, collided with a truck with a semi-trailer that stopped at a red traffic light in the same direction,” the statement said.

It is specified that the driver and passenger of the minibus are killed in the accident. Also, according to updated data, the number of victims in the incident increased to nine.

Earlier it was reported that in the Novosyolovsky district of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, as a result of an accident involving a minibus, two people were killed and eight more were injured.

In August, URA.RU reported that five people were injured in a collision between a tram and a bus in Perm.