“Today, at the request of the investigation, the court chose a measure of restraint in the form of detention for a period of two months to an individual entrepreneur of Makhachkala of the Republic of Dagestan and a bus owner suspected of providing services that did not meet safety requirements that led to the death of people,” the press service of the investigative agency said. management of the Investigative Committee of Russia in the Republic of Kalmykia.

The accident occurred on the P216 Astrakhan - Elista - Stavropol highway.

In total, there were 28 passengers on the bus, six were killed. 

Investigators detained the owner of a passenger bus, which collided with KamAZ in Kalmykia, and an entrepreneur from Dagestan, the organizer of this transportation.