Uzlovsk City Court, Tula Region, Russia, has ruled arresting Garnik Haroutiunyan, the 44-year-old driver of the passenger bus that overturned near Tula killing 8 and leaving 47 injured. Andrey Yartsev, the spokesperson of the local Interior Ministry Department told Interfax.
The Department appealed to the court over the incident. The driver will under arrest for 2 months till January 3 2016. As a citizen of the foreign country (Armenia), the driver could escape. Haroutiunyan is a suspect.
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 an Armenian Company King Deluxe. A criminal case was initiated on the basis of Article 264.5 of the Criminal Code of Russia "violation of traffic rules and improper operation of transport means." The police do not rule out that the driver might have fallen asleep while driving. To recall, an ad hoc committee has been set up at the behest of Armenian Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan to help organize funerals and provide assistance to the injured.