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Police searching for eyewitnesses of road accident in New Moscow

On Sunday, the KAMAZ driver was detained on Article 91 of the Russian Criminal Procedure Code for 48 hours
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MOSCOW, July 15 (Itar-Tass) - The Moscow police are searching for eyewitnesses and those people, who were injured in an awful road accident with the passenger bus in the New Moscow territory, when 18 people died, but did not turn in police, the press service of the Moscow branch of the main Interior Ministry’s department told Itar-Tass on Monday.

“The eyewitnesses of the road accident and wounded people, who did not turn in the police yet, asked to go to the Main Investigation Department of the Interior Ministry in Moscow at the address: 45, Novoslobodskaya Street, or call the phones: 8(499)973-92-31, 8(499) 978-05-35,” the press service said.

The police earlier reported that the detective will bring the accusation against the KAMAZ driver, who rammed in the bus, on Monday. Then the detectives also intend to request the court to put the driver under arrest.

On Sunday, the KAMAZ driver was detained on Article 91 of the Russian Criminal Procedure Code for 48 hours. At the first interrogation, which took place at the hospital, where the suspect is being kept, he refused from the testimony over a bad state of health. The criminal case was opened over the violation of the traffic rules that entailed the death of two and more people through negligence.