CHISINAU, August 5. /TASS/. Moldova’s government will provide all the necessary help to the citizens who were injured in a road crash in the Kaluga Region and will organize and finance the repatriation of the bodies of the deceased, Moldovan Prime Minister Pavel Filip said on Saturday evening, the government’s press service reported.

"The Moldovan embassy will provide all the necessary help to the victims. If the injured are in critical condition, it will secure their transportation on a medical helicopter," the report says.

It notes that Moldovan diplomats and representatives for the General Inspectorate for Emergencies. "Filip offered condolences to the relatives and friends of the deceased. He stated that the government would cover the costs on the repatriation of six bodies of the deceased," the press service specified.

According to preliminary reports, eight people, including six Moldovans, died and several more Moldovan nationals were injured and taken to hospitals after a van, a car and a truck had collided in the Russian Kaluga region, some 230 kilometers southwest of Moscow.