Three Killed, Three Injured in Road Accident in Russia's Yakutsk - Traffic Police Source

YAKUTSK (Sputnik) - Three people have been killed and three more injured in a head-on collision between a truck and a passenger minibus in the Siberian city of Yakutsk, a source in the Russian General Administration for Traffic Safety's regional branch said.

"According to preliminary data, three people were injured and as many were killed. The minibus with passengers was headed from Yakutsk to Vilyuysk. Unofficial data suggests that the driver of the Toyota Hiace swerved across the line into oncoming traffic", the source said on Monday.

Earlier in the day, a Mitsubishi Canter was reported to have crashed into a Toyota Hiace passenger minibus on a highway between the cities of Yakutsk and Vilyuysk in Russia's Siberia at about 11 a.m. local time (02:00 GMT).

The administration's press office said earlier that an investigative team had been sent to the scene of the accident.