President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov instructed to prepare a special plane to transport the bodies of the compatriots, who were killed in a traffic accident near Ulyanovsk, to Kyrgyzstan. Daiyrbek Orunbekov, chief spokesman for the president, wrote on Facebook.
According to him, the instruction was given to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan, the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the Manas International Airport.
According to preliminary data, 14 Kyrgyzstanis died in a traffic accident in Ulyanovsk Oblast of Russia. Two heavy trucks crashed into a minibus on M-5 Ural highway. As a result, 16 people were killed, most of them are citizens of the Kyrgyz Republic.
