YEREVAN. – The matter is discussed whether to transfer from the trauma department at Tula provincial clinical hospital in Russia to Yerevan, the capital city of Armenia, one of the injured in the bus that recently crashed in Russia.

One of the two respective patients undergoing treatment at the aforesaid hospital is in the intensive care unit, whereas the other is kept in the above-said department of this hospital. 

Their treatment is carried out in full.

Press service of the Ministry of Health of Armenia informed Armenian News-NEWS.am that the condition of the patient at the intensive care unit remains serious, but stable. 

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.