“We have already calculated the burial funds. The municipality will take on this burden - burial, purchase of coffins, delivery of bodies of the dead from the morgue to the place of burial. For these purposes, over 1 million rubles will be allocated from the district budget, 60 thousand rubles for each victim, ”TASS quoted the head of the district, Alexei Zakurdaev, as saying.
He noted that at the moment the bodies of 17 of the 19 dead were identified.
On December 1, in the Trans-Baikal Territory, a passenger bus fell from a bridge onto the ice of the Kuenga River. The accident killed at least 19 people, another 22 were injured. It is reported that the wheel of the vehicle was broken, after which the driver lost control.