On November 3 evening, an interdepartmental commission left for Russia to organize the transportation of the injured and the bodies of the victims of the bus crash in Tula region, Hovhannes Khangeldyan, Head of the Crisis Management Center of the Armenian Ministry of Territorial Administration and Emergency Situations, told journalists.
Khangeldyan said that the task of the interdepartmental commission is to specify the passport data of the injured in the accident, as well as to organize the transportation of the victims' bodies and the injured passengers, who are currently at the medical centers of Uzlovaya, Kireyevsk and Novomoskovsk. By preliminary data, the victims' bodies and part of the injured will be brought to Armenia by a charter flight of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations. The passengers in grave condition may undergo further treatment at the medical centers of Moscow, Khangeldyan said. The issue of transportation of the other passengers, who received no injuries in the bus crash, still hangs in the air.
To recall, 8 people were killed and 47 injured, as a passenger bus running from Moscow to the Armenian capital of Yerevan overturned on the M4 "Don" highway in Tula Region. One of the injured died at hospital. The bus belonged to King Deluxe (Armenia). A criminal case has been initiated on the basis of Article 264.5 of the Criminal Code of Russia "violation of traffic rules and improper operation of transport means that caused vehicular homicide" The police do not rule out that the driver might have fallen asleep while driving.