TASS informs about this with reference to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia in the Rostov region.

"Rostov region, Salsky district, ninth km of the Salsk-Gigant highway, information has been received about a head-on collision of a Gazelle truck and a Lada Kalina car," the department said.

It is noted that "as a result of an accident, six people were previously injured, five of them died, including two children."

All the circumstances of the incident are being investigated.

Earlier it was reported that as a result of a collision of three cars on the Novosibirsk - Kamen-on-Obi highway of the Altai Territory, four people were injured.