Hrach Badalyan, Gagik Manukyan, Varuzh Stepanyan, Artashes Hovhannisyan and Garnik Hakobyan, who had died in the Armenian bus crash in Russia, were interred on Saturday in Armenia.

Another crash victim, Hayk Hovhannisyan, was laid to rest on Friday.

Bodies of the eight passengers, who had lost their lives in this tragic road accident, were brought back to Armenia on Thursday, with a special flight by an aircraft of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations.

And Hripsime Sirekanyan, 68, who was severely injured in the bus crash, also on Saturday morning, in the Uzlovaya town medical center in Russia.

As a result, the death toll in this tragic accident has reached nine.

Eight people were initially 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 (province) 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.