Five Killed, 25 Injured in North Ossetia Road Accident

Five people were killed and 25 others were injured when a Moscow-Armenia passenger bus collided with a car hauler in Russia’s Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, the Russian Emergencies Ministry told RIA Novosti.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The accident occurred early on Friday.

"Five people died, 25 were injured," the North Ossetia-Alania department of the Emergencies Ministry told RIA Novosti. Later on Friday morning, a department representative said that the updated number of injured was 27, four children are among them.

The regional branch of the Russian Interior Ministry put the death toll from the accident at four people.