YEREVAN. – The relevant agencies of Armenia and Russia deserve thanks for rendering assistance to the injured in the Armenian bus crash in Tula Oblast (province) in Russia. 

The Prime Minister of Armenia, Hovik Abrahamyan, stated the aforementioned at Thursday’s Cabinet meeting. 

Abrahamyan expressed gratitude to the Russian PM, Minister of Transport, and Governor of Tula as well as to the Armenian Ministers of Transport and Communication and of Health, for their operative work after this incident. 

Nine people were killed and over forty others were injured as a passenger bus, which was traveling from Moscow to Yerevan, crashed on November 3, 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.