The toll of a road accident in Russia is particularly heavy.
Sixteen people were killed in a collision between a minibus and two trucks in the Ulyanovsk region on Sunday, Russian news agencies reported citing emergency services.
According to witnesses, a truck left the line on which it was traveling, colliding with an oncoming minibus, near the village of Nikolayevka.
At the time of the accident, the minibus was also hit from behind by another truck.
On images broadcast by the Russian television channel Ren TV, we can see that the minibus found itself almost completely flattened by the two heavyweights.
Mainly Kyrgyz victims
The accident left 16 dead, "14 Kyrgyz citizens and two Russians", said a spokesman for the local emergency services, quoted by the official news agency TASS.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan confirmed that 14 nationals of this former Soviet republic of Central Asia had perished in the tragedy.
Three other people - two men and a woman - were hospitalized in serious condition, the governor of the Ulyanovsk region, Alexei Rousskikh, wrote on Telegram.
Violations of road safety rules are frequent in Russia, where several deadly bus accidents have occurred in recent years, such as in January in Ryazan, about 270 km south of Moscow: five people were killed and 21 injured.
In December 2019, a bus with around 40 passengers on board fell into a frozen river in the Zabaykalsk region of Siberia.
Result: 19 dead and 21 injured.
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