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Ten people, including 2 children, from bus capsized in Stavropol territory hospitalized

The bus was carrying 44 people
Photo ITAR-TASS / Alexei Filippov
Photo ITAR-TASS / Alexei Filippov

PYATIGORSK, August 6 (Itar-Tass) - Ten people from a bus, which capsized in the Stavropol territory, including two children, were hospitalized, the territorial road police department reported on Tuesday.

“As a result of a major road accident a young woman died of wounded at the road accident site, ten passengers with bodily injuries were brought to the central district hospital in Novoalexadrovsk, where the medical aid was given to them. Two underage children are among wounded people,” the territorial road police department said.

The passenger express bus Neoplan Higer of the company Stavropoltranstur en route from Adler to Stavropol overturned at about 03:50 Moscow time on Tuesday at the fifth kilometre of the Novoalexadrovsk-Kropotkin highway near the settlement Yuzhny. Wounded people were taken to the hospital in Novoalexadrovsk. The bus was carrying 44 people.