Family from Kyrgyzstan gets into road accident in Russia

12:15, 08 сентября 2022, Bishkek - 24.kg news agency , Anastasia MOKRENKO

A family from Kyrgyzstan got into a traffic accident in Chelyabinsk Oblast of Russia. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic reported.

A Renault Logan car driven by a citizen of Kyrgyzstan drove into the oncoming lane and collided with a Volvo heavy truck on M-5 highway near the city of Zlatoust on September 7.

There were six people in the car, all members of the same family — parents and their four children. All of them are citizens of Kyrgyzstan. The woman and children arrived by air from Osh to Ufa. The man met the family at the airport and they went to Nizhnevartovsk.

Kyrgyzstanis injured in the road accident were taken by ambulance to the Zlatoust City Clinical Hospital. The 12-year-old girl underwent surgery. Her condition is grave. The rest are in the traumatology department.

The Consulate General keeps in contact with hospital employees, traffic police officers, and injured Kyrgyzstanis.