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10 people dead in minibus crash in Russia

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Moscow, Feb 4: Ten people were killed in a head-on collision in Russia not far from the Ukraine border on Wednesday when a minibus drove into a truck, police said.

The crash in the Belgorod region -- about 40 kilometres from the border of eastern Ukraine's Kharkiv region -- saw the minibus swerve into oncoming traffic and hit a large semi-trailer truck, police in the Belgorod region said in a statement.

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Ten people were killed, including the minibus driver, and six were injured, a spokesman for the police also told Russian agencies.

A police source told RIA-Novosti that the minibus was travelling to the Lugansk region in eastern Ukraine, part of which is controlled by pro-Russian separatists, and that the passengers were of Ukrainian nationality.

AFP

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