This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the region.
“The driver, born in 1976, a resident of the Chita region, died of injuries at the scene of an accident,” the department said.
On December 1, in the Sretensky district of Transbaikalia, a bus in which, according to the Ministry of Emergencies, there were 44 people, fell from a bridge into the Kuenga River. According to the traffic police, the cause of the accident was a broken wheel.
As a result of the accident, 19 people were killed, another 19 were hospitalized.
A case was initiated under the article “Provision of services that do not meet safety requirements, which entailed the death of two or more persons through negligence.”
The Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, put the progress of the investigation into control in the central apparatus of the UK.