This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to a representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the region.

“According to preliminary information, a Hyundai car and a VAZ-2115 collided.

As a result, a driver of a foreign car and a woman passenger died, a driver and three passengers - a man and two women - died in a VAZ car, ”the Ministry of Internal Affairs said.

According to the police, the accident happened on the 16th kilometer of the south-western bypass of the city of Smolensk.

Earlier it was reported that the UK opened a criminal case on the fact of an accident with three people killed in Udmurtia.