Armenians suffered in traffic accident near Stavropol

ArmInfo. There are Russian citizens of Armenian origin among those who suffered in a traffic accident in the Stavropol region. This is stated in the message of  the Armenian Embassy in Russia on Facebook.

 ''According to the  information received, an Armenian, who is a citizen of the Russian  Federation, E.A. born in 1980 (registered in the city of Volgograd)  and his two children (born in 2010 and 2015) were injured. The  injured citizens were taken to Apanasenkovsky district hospital of  the Stavropol region. The Consulate General of Armenia in  Rostov-on-Don is in touch with the local Armenian community, for  possible support for the injured, "the report says.  

To note, the Sunlong Bus collided with a Renault truck on Friday  around 02.30am at the 420th kilometer of the  Astrakhan-Elista-Stavropol highway. Initially, the traffic police  reported that the bus drove on the oncoming lane.  But later the  traffic police stated that they found the DVR in the bus, and the  record shows that it was the truck that went to the "oncoming  traffic". According to preliminary information of the traffic police,  the driver of the truck fell asleep at the wheel. As a result of an  accident, according to the authorities of the region, 5 people were  killed, 19 injured, of whom 15 were hospitalized.