NIZHNY NOVGOROD, June 22 Five people, including two babies, died in a car crushed by several colliding trucks near Nizhny Novgorod, the press reported. Service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Nizhny Novgorod Region.
Earlier, with reference to the regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, it was reported about two dead.
«It has been preliminary established that today at the 411th kilometer of the Southern Bypass of Nizhny Novgorod, as a result of a collision of three heavy vehicles and one passenger car, five people died, two of them were children born in 2023,» the report says.
As Minister of Health of the Nizhny Novgorod Region David Melik-Guseinov clarified, the death toll was established after the car was partially released. This is a man, two women and two children. «Identities are being established. Information will be specified,» Melik-Guseinov wrote in his Telegram channel.
According to the traffic police of the region, the accident occurred on Thursday at about 15.00. Three heavy vehicles and a passenger car collided.
The traffic police are working on the spot.