YEREVAN. – As of Saturday 11am, the four Armenian citizens that were injured in the Moscow-Yerevan bus crash and whose state of health is relatively severe, continue to be treated in a hospital in Vladikavkaz, Russia. 

Colonel Arman Tsolakyan, a representative of the Rescue Service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Armenia, told reporters about the above-said.

Accordingly, Zhasmen Harutyunyan (born in 1949), Smbat Poghosyan (born in 1990), Hrant Baghdasaryan (born in 1949), and Avag Tsatinyan (born in 1984) are still receiving medical treatment in Russia.

The ministry representative added that the bus was carrying 51 people, including six women and five children. In addition, eight passengers, including four of the casualties, were Russian citizens.

As reported earlier, a passenger bus, which was heading from Moscow to Armenia’s capital city of Yerevan, collided with a truck, on Friday at around 4:30am, on the Vladikavkaz-Beslan bypass, in Russia. As a result, five people, including the bus driver, were killed, and 27 others sustained injuries.