Death Toll Climbs To 19 After Bus Falls From Bridge In Eastern Siberia - Authorities
Muhammad Irfan Published December 01, 2019 | 03:20 PM
MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 01st December, 2019) Nineteen people died Sunday after a passenger bus plunged from a bridge onto an ice-covered river near the Eastern Siberian city of Sretensk in Russia, the regional governor's office said.
A spokesman for the Zabaykalsky region's emergency services told Sputnik earlier that 15 people had died and 18 were injured in the fall.
"According to an update, the accident in the Sretensk area killed 19 people, while 21 others received various kinds of injuries," the authorities told reporters.
The Kia Grandbird bus with 43 passengers was traveling from Chita to Sretensk when it veered off the bridge and fell onto the ice of the Kuenga River. Russian Interior Ministry's Main Directorate for Traffic Safety blamed the fatal accident on a front-tire burst.
Two medivac helicopters have been sent to the site some 37 miles from Sretensk. Governor Alexander Osipov is expected to visit the scene. A criminal investigation into the accident has been launched.
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