Hripsime Sirekanyan, 68, who died on November 7 after being seriously injured as a result of an Armenia bus crash in Russia’s Tula, was laid to rest today, the governor of Armenia’s Yeraskhavan village and the woman’s fellow-villager told Armenian News – NEWS.am.  

Sirekanyan was buried in Armenia’s city of Armavir.

Nine people were killed and several dozen others were injured as a passenger bus, which was traveling from Moscow to Yerevan, crashed on November 3 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 information, the bus driver, Garnik Harutyunyan, had fallen asleep at the steering wheel. Harutyunyan is under arrest.