YEREVAN. – One of the injured in the Armenian bus crash in Tula Oblast (province) in Russia, and who was receiving treatment at the Uzlovsky District medical center, has been transferred to Moscow for surgery. 

The Deputy Minister of Health of Armenia, Gagik Mirijanyan, told the above-said to Armenian News-NEWS.am.

He added that another injured, who had sustained comminuted fractures, is currently being transported to Moscow by helicopter.

The rest of the injured will continue treatment at the Tula provincial clinical hospital.

Another three victims of the bus crash are receiving treatment at Saint Gregory the Illuminator Medical Center in Yerevan, the capital city of Armenia.

Eight people were killed and several dozen others were injured as a passenger bus, which was traveling from Moscow to Yerevan, crashed on Tuesday at around 2:10am local time, in Tula Oblast in Russia.

Russia has opened a criminal case into this bus crash, and on charges of “breaking the road traffic and vehicle operation rules.” A similar case has been filed in Armenia, too.

According to preliminary data, the bus driver, Garnik Harutyunyan, had fallen asleep at the steering wheel.

Harutyunyan has been taken into custody for two months.