Passenger bus en route Moscow-Yerevan crashes in Voronezh, three injured

YEREVAN, JUNE 13, ARMENPRESS. Three people, including two children have been injured in a bus crash en route Moscow-Yerevan in Russia’s Voronezh Oblast, the Russian interior ministry reported.

Russian authorities said the 35 year old driver of the Mercedes-Benz bus lost control while traveling on the M4 ‘Don’ highway’s 717th km in the Verkhnemamonsk region in the morning of June 13, and as a result crashed into the roadside ditch.

The bus was carrying 39 passengers en route Moscow-Yerevan. Three people have been injured.

According to Russian authorities, two of the three injured are children – one 7 year old boy from Krasnoyarsk, and a 10 year old girl from Kostroma.

The injured have been hospitalized in the Bogucharski medical facility.

“Currently police are cooperating with the local government agencies for accommodating the passengers of the bus in a hotel until the next bus arrives and takes them to the point of destination”, the interior ministry said.