Disaster near Vladimir

At the move in the area of ​​the Pokrov station in the Vladimir region, the passenger bus collided with the train. 21 people died, including three children, Interfax reports with reference to a source in the operational headquarters. In total, there were 58 people on the bus.

The wounded were delivered to the hospitals, their number is not specified. The condition of some victims is evaluated as extremely serious.

The press secretary of the Governor of the Vladimir Region Margarita Shlyakhova said that there were citizens of Uzbekistan on the bus, which collided with a train in the Petushinsky district. "The bus was Kazakhstan's numbers, but the information that it had no Kazakhstan citizens were received," Shlyakhova noted.

According to the preliminary version, the cause of the accident was the bus malfunction. “The old bus, stalled on the railway tracks. According to the survivors, they saw a train, 34 people jumped out of the bus, tried to move it from the place, but they could not do it,” said Vyacheslav Araklov, head of the city administration of Pokrov.

Passenger train Petersburg - Nizhny Novgorod from the rail did not get off the rails. Members of the locomotive brigade were injured. The trains are not reported about the injured passengers. The movement of electric trains and long -distance trains in the area of ​​the Pokrov station is suspended.

A criminal case has been instituted under part 3 of Article 263 of the Criminal Code (violation of traffic safety rules and the operation of transport, which entailed by negligence the death of two or more persons). Minister of Transport Maxim Sokolov instructed to create a commission of Rostransnadzor in connection with the accident.