All the victims are Kazakh citizens, said the rescue services cited by the Russian public agency Ria Novosti.
Le Monde with AFP
Fifteen people were killed on Sunday, August 21, in a collision between a minibus and two trucks in the Russian region of Oulianovsk (Volga), Russian news agencies reported. According to witnesses cited by these agencies, a truck is out of its way, colliding with a minibus which was traveling in the opposite direction, near the village of Nikolaïevka. At the time of the accident, the minibus was also struck at the back by another truck.
According to images broadcast by the Russian television channel Ren TV, the minibus was almost entirely flattened by the two trucks.
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The accident cost the lives of 15 people, Kazakh citizens, said the emergency services cited by the Russian public agency Ria Novosti. Three other people have been hospitalized in a serious state, wrote on Telegram the governor of the region of Oulianovsk, Alexei Rousskikh.
Violations of road safety rules are frequent in Russia, where several murderous accidents have occurred in recent years. In January, five people were killed and 21 injured during a bus accident in the Riazan region, about 270 kilometers south of Moscow. In December 2019, a bus counting around forty passengers on board dropped in a frozen river in the Zabaïkalsk region, in Siberia, leading to the death of 19 people and injuring 21 others.