Russian Citizen In Serious Condition After Bus Crash Near Swiss Zurich - Embassy

GENEVA (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 16th December, 2018) A Russian citizen who has suffered injuries as a result of a bus crash that took place near the Swiss northeastern city of Zurich early on Sunday is in a serious condition, Stanislav Smirnov, a spokesman for the Russian Embassy to Switzerland, told Sputnik.

Earlier in the day, media reported that a bus traveling from Italy's Genoa to the German city of Duesseldorf crashed into a wall, killing one person and injuring 44 others, three of whom have sustained serious injuries. According to the Russian Embassy in Bern, 10 of the injured are Russian citizens, while local police said that there were just six Russians among those injured in the bus crash.

"One Russian citizen is currently in a serious condition. She is not transportable. The rest of the injured Russians will be able to leave the hospital as early as today.

They have minor injuries, there are also fractures," the spokesman said.

A source in the Russian Federal Agency for Tourism (Rosturism), in turn, told Sputnik that the agency was clarifying the information regarding the condition of the injured Russian nationals.

"There is information indicating that the bus was not a tourist one but a regular one," the source said, adding that it meant that the Russians who were on the bus were not traveling as part of an organized tour.

According to the police, there were also passengers from Albania, Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Germany, Ghana, Italy, Jordan, Nigeria, Romania and Switzerland on the bus. The driver is among those in a serious condition.