DUSHANBE, May 1, Lidia Isamova. Six people were killed, three, including two children, were hospitalized on Monday morning after a minibus fell into an abyss in Tajikistan, Umeda Yusufi, spokeswoman for the republic's Committee for Emergency Situations and Civil Defense, said.
«A signal about a traffic accident at the 154th kilometer of the Dushanbe-Khujand-Chanak highway, connecting Dushanbe with the north of the country, was received at 04.10 local time (02.10 Moscow time). It was established that the driver lost control, after which the minibus broke into an abyss from a height of 200 meters,» she said.
Yusufi said that the rescuers, having descended to the scene of the accident, removed the bodies of the driver and five passengers from the crumpled car, and three passengers — two children and a woman — were taken to the Aini district hospital with injuries of varying severity.