"On October 9 at 17:02 (16:02 Moscow time), the Main Directorate of the Russian Emergencies Ministry for the Astrakhan Region received a message about an accident ..." - the message says.
As specified, as a result of the collision of four cars, there are casualties.
Earlier, three people died and two more were injured in an accident involving two cars in the Syzran district of the Samara region.