02 January 2012, 22:00
Passengers of the bus crashed in Kabardino-Balkaria sent home
The passengers of the bus, which overturned in a traffic accident in the Cherek District of Kabardino-Balkaria, have been sent home – to the Stavropol Territory.
The bus that belongs to one of the tourist firms of the Stavropol Territory turned over on a road near the junction near the villages of Gerpegezh and Aushiger. Inside the bus, there were 18 passengers. As a result of the traffic accident, Tatiana Kostyushkina, 29, was killed. According to the latest data, six people were injured, including an 11-year-old child.
Three victims were transported to the Republic's Clinical Hospital in Nalchik; the other three – with less serious injuries – have been already discharged from the Cherek District Hospital.
The passengers, who did not suffer in the accident, were sent in that very bus to the city Budyonnovsk. "On their way there they will pick up the three victims, who are in hospital in Nalchik," the RIA "Novosti" quotes Murat Apazhikhov, the head of the press service of the Chief Department for Kabardino-Balkaria of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE).
Two passengers refused to go home on the bus, saying that they would be picked up by their relatives.
According to the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), the driver had lost control; this was the reason of the accident, the "Interfax" reports.
