Truck Crash Near Moscow Kills 14

VOA News
13 July 2013 (9:41AM)

In Russia, a truck carrying concrete has slammed into a passenger bus, killing 14 people and injuring several others.

The crash occurred about 40 kilometers south of the capital, Moscow.

The force of the collision ripped the bus into two parts. Police are at the scene trying to clear the road, which is covered with debris from the accident.

Russian media say the drivers of both vehicles are among those hospitalized.

Truck Crash Near Moscow Kills 14

VOA News
13 July 2013 (11:19AM)

A large truck carrying concrete and asphalt rubble smashed into a passenger bus near Moscow, cutting the bus in two and killing 18 people.

Russia's Emergency Services Ministry reported the increased death toll Saturday. About 25 people were injured.

The crash took place overnight near a small village on the outskirts of Moscow, about 40 kilometers from the Kremlin.

The truck overturned when it hit the bus, a local government official said, and most of its load - 12 cubic meters of broken pieces of concrete and asphalt roadway - fell onto the wreckage of the bus.

Authorities say the drivers of both vehicles survived the crash and are being treated at a hospital.