“According to preliminary data, a bus and five cars collided, nine people were injured, four of them are children. They were taken to the hospital, ”the department said.
According to the data of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the accident occurred at the entrance to the M7 Volga highway in the direction of Nytva. The police said that seven vehicles were involved in the clash, including a bus, a truck, a gazelle and cars.
The press service of the Russian Emergencies Ministry added that there were 37 people on the bus.
“There were 37 people on the bus, of which 35 were teenagers 10-11 years old from the sports team coming from the city of Tchaikovsky,” the rescue agency said.
Earlier in Khabarovsk in an accident with a bus and a truck eight people were injured.
Also, the portal Rostovgazeta.ru reported on the beginning of an audit in the Rostov region on the fact of an accident with two dead.