This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the Russian Emergencies Ministry.

“As a result of a collision between a VAZ-2112 and a Ford Focus on a highway in the village of Kosulino, six people were injured, five of them died,” the source said.

According to him, 20 people and seven pieces of equipment were involved in the aftermath of the accident.

Earlier it became known that four people were killed and one was injured in a collision of two cars on a highway in the Kemerovo region.

URA.RU also wrote that as a result of an accident in the Chelyabinsk region, two adults and a five-year-old girl died.