The investigative Committee of Russia on Transbaikalian edge have told the details of large road accident on the route Irkutsk — Chita “Baikal”. On the Agency’s website reported that of the 11 victims in an accident with a passenger bus nine women.
In SC specified that as a result of a rollover bus KIA Granbird 10 people were killed on the spot, another man died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. The investigators added that injured more than 20 people. Earlier in the Ministry of health stated that the hospital delivered 34 people in heavy and extremely a grave condition.
SK of Russia on Transbaikalian edge has started preliminary examination under article “services that do not meet safety requirements”. The interior Ministry of Russia sent from Moscow a group of traffic police officers to clarify the circumstances of the accident.
In the Central district hospital of the city of Petrovsk-Transbaikalian news Agency RIA Novosti said that after the accident they received 30 women, four men and three children. Most of the victims will be evacuated in Chita, the most severe in Ulan-Ude.
A bus carrying pilgrims to Chita from the village Urluk after the procession, drove into a ditch and overturned at about 00.00 local time in Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky district, seven kilometers West of the village of Hohoto, 702-m kilometer of the highway “Baikal”. Presumably, the driver lost control.
The pilgrims returning home after a trip to the monastery of St. Barlaam, a hermit Chicago. Believers visited her on the day of remembrance of the icon of the blessed virgin Mary “surety of sinners”. In the Chita diocese promised to assist the families of those killed and injured.