Six of the passengers, who had suffered injuries as a result of an Armenian passenger bus crashing in Russia, have been discharged from hospital.

Director of the Crisis Management Center of the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Emergency Situations of Armenia, Hovhannes Khangeldyan, told the aforementioned to Armenian News-NEWS.am.

As of Wednesday 10am, there are 26 injured in three hospitals in Tula Oblast (province), Russia.

And the passengers who received outpatient treatment are staying at a hotel in Tula city. They will receive their belongings during the day, and they may even return to Armenia at the end of the day.

The passenger bus, which was traveling from Moscow to Yerevan, had the accident on Tuesday at around 2:10am local time, in the Uzlovsky District in Tula Oblast (province), Russia.

There were 59 passengers on the bus, but no children were among them.

At present, there are reports on eight casualties and 47 injured, and the latter were taken to the three nearby hospitals.

A technical malfunction in the vehicle is considered a probable cause of this tragedy. But there is also a possibility that the bus driver might have fallen asleep behind the steering wheel.

The bus driver, Garnik Harutyunyan, 44, is detained.