As of Friday 10am, nine people are still in the Vladikavkaz hospitals, after the tragic crash of a passenger bus that was heading from Moscow to Armenia’s capital city of Yerevan.

The other injured have been discharged from the hospitals of this Russian city.

The Vladikavkaz authorities informed Armenian News-NEWS.am that 32 people were injured in the crash, and five of them had died. There are four children among the affected.  

The bus passengers that can be transported will be brought to Yerevan on board a plane of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations.

A temporary shelter has been set up in the Cultural House of Beslan, for the passengers that do not need medical assistance.

As earlier reported, a passenger bus, which was heading from Moscow to Yerevan, collided with a truck, on Friday at around 4:30am, on a turning road near Vladikavkaz.

The two drivers are also among the five casualties of this tragedy.