It is noted that the accident occurred at 15:35 Moscow time on the 245th km of the M3 "Ukraine" highway in the Sukhinichi district.

The department said that, according to preliminary data, "an ambulance moving from the city of Lyudinovo to Kaluga, drove into the lane intended for oncoming traffic, and made a collision with a DAF truck."

According to the police, two patients, born in 1995 and 2003, died as a result of an accident.

“The driver and the paramedic of the ambulance were injured.

The injured were taken to medical institutions to provide qualified assistance, ”the Ministry of Internal Affairs said.

All the circumstances of the incident are being investigated.

Earlier it was reported that in the Moscow region, three people died in an accident with a minibus and a truck.