This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the Regional Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

“Investigative police authorities on the fact of an accident with a passenger bus in the Rodnikovsky district have opened a criminal case under Article 264 of the Criminal Code of Russia,” the department noted.

It is clarified that the bus driver was detained.

He was placed in a temporary detention facility.

Earlier, investigators organized a check after a bus overturned in the Ivanovo region, as a result of which one person died and 12 were injured.