Six killed as Russian train hits bus

MOSCOW, June 3 (Reuters) Six people were killed and more than a dozen injured today when a Russian passenger train hit a bus in southern Russia, an Emergency Ministry spokesman said.

''Six people were killed and 14 people were injured,'' the spokesman said. ''It is not clear why it happened, they are trying to ascertain that now.'' The train, travelling from the resort of Anapa on the Black Sea to the northern city of St Petersburg, hit a touring bus on a rail crossing in the Voronezh region, about 700 km (430 miles) south of Moscow, the spokesman said.

About 50 people were on the bus, RIA news agency reported.

''It seems that no one who was travelling in the train was hurt as there is no data on casualties from the train,'' the spokesman said.

Emergency services are working at the scene of the accident, he said.

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