The Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia’s Tula district has appealed the indictment against Armenian citizen Garnik Harutyunyan, who was found guilty of the traffic accident involving many victims, Senior Advisor to the district prosecutor Lyubov Kuznetsova informed on Thursday.

In her words, the sentence has been appealed on grounds of extreme leniency of the punishment, Interfax reports.

On August 2, Uzlovsky court of Tula district sentenced Harutyunyan to 4 years and 6 months in prison with the revocation of the right to drive transportation means for three years.

The passenger bus, which was traveling from Moscow to Yerevan, had the accident on November 3 last year, in the Uzlovsky District of Tula Oblast (province), Russia.

There were over 60 passengers on the bus, all of them Armenian citizens. Consequently, 9 people died and 46 sustained injuries. 32 people were hospitalized. A criminal case was opened against the driver under the article of ''violation of traffic rules, negligently resulting in the deaths of two or more persons,'' which stipulates until seven years in prison. Custody was chosen as a precautionary measure against the driver.