Nine people died in a traffic accident in Mari El

As a result of a collision between a minibus and a timber truck in the Kilemar district of Mari El, eight people were killed, the Ministry of Internal Affairs told RIA Novosti.

Later, an agency source said that, according to preliminary data, there were 21 people in the minibus, and nine died. TASS the same thing An unnamed interlocutor in the emergency services told .

According to preliminary data, the collision occurred on the 64th kilometer of the Yoshkar-Ola - Kozmodemyansk highway. Officially, the Ministry of Internal Affairs website does not mention the deaths .

The website of the Ministry of Emergency Situations says that a KamAZ truck and a Mercedes minibus collided .

Updated at 19:38: added information about nine deaths.