This is the regional office.
"The investigation department in the city of Nadym ... on the fact of the death of two police officers and a civilian in an accident, a criminal case was opened on the grounds of a crime under Article 5 of Article 264 of the Criminal Code of Russia" Violation of the rules of the road that resulted in the death of two or more persons, " in a statement.
According to the investigation, two officers of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs department escorted an administratively detained citizen in a Lada Granta official car when a head-on collision with a Mazda car in which there were two men and a woman occurred on the Surgut-Salekhard highway.
At the moment, investigators are questioning eyewitnesses and establish all the circumstances of the incident.
Earlier it was reported that in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District, as a result of a collision of two cars on the Surgut-Salekhard highway, three people were killed and three others were injured.