“Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Ivanovich Bastrykin instructed ... to report on the progress of the investigation of criminal cases initiated on the fact of an accident involving a shuttle bus,” the message on the website of the Investigative Committee of Russia says.
According to preliminary data, the driver lost control, and the bus slid into a ditch, where it crashed into a tree.
The course of the investigation of criminal cases is put under control in the central office of the department.
Earlier, the prosecutor's office reported that at least four people died as a result of an accident with a regular bus in the Krasnodar Territory.
According to the press service of the regional Ministry of Health, 15 people were injured in the accident, two of them are in serious condition.
The Investigative Committee opened criminal cases on the fact of providing services of inadequate quality and violation of traffic rules.