Tourist bus collides with heavy truck in Primorye. Casualties reported.
Information is being updated
An accident involving a passenger bus and a heavy truck occurred on a highway in the Barabash area of the Khasansky district in Primorye. Preliminary reports indicate there are casualties, according to the police press service.
It is believed the bus was carrying tourists from China. The Ministry of Health specified that disaster medicine teams, four medical teams from Khasanskaya Hospital and two teams from Nadezhdinskaya, have been sent to the scene.
Traffic police officers have also arrived at the scene. The number of casualties is being clarified.
Update: two people have died, the bus driver and one passenger. Specialists at Ussuriysk Central City Hospital have been placed on high alert to provide medical assistance, and doctors at Vladivostok Clinical Hospital No. 2 are ready to receive casualties.
In 2023, a tourist bus from China heading to Ussuriysk in Primorye veered into a ditch. Preliminary reports indicated two deaths, with some passengers trapped in the mangled vehicle. All information about that incident was collected in a special section.
