Two heavy trucks crashed into a minibus on M-5 Ural highway in Ulyanovsk Oblast of Russia. According to preliminary data, 16 people died. Russian media report.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic, 14 Kyrgyzstanis were killed in the traffic accident, and three more citizens of the Kyrgyz Republic were hospitalized in a medical facility.
Consular officers of the Embassy of the Kyrgyz Republic in the Russian Federation went to the scene to provide consular and legal assistance.
To clarify the circumstances of the accident, representatives of law enforcement and competent authorities of Ulyanovsk Oblast were contacted.
The Embassy organized a hotline at
