YEREVAN. - The bodies of 8 passengers killed in the accident involving a bus travelling from Moscow to Yerevan, have been transferred to the Armenian Center of Forensic Medicine. Following the forensic examination, the bodies will be passed over to the relatives tomorrow morning.  

17 relatives of the victims and 32 passengers who were injured or suffered relatively light injuries as a result of the accident have also arrived with the same flight.

8 injured passengers were taken to “Surb Grigor Lusavorich” medical center.

There are still 12 passengers in Tula Oblast hospitals. Their condition is serious and satisfactory.

Over four dozen people were affected as a passenger bus, which was traveling from Moscow to Yerevan, crashed on Tuesday at around 2:10am local time, in Tula Oblast in Russia.

Seven people were killed on the spot while another passenger died in hospital. Nine of the injured are in serious condition.

There were 59 passengers on the bus, but no children were among them.

The injured were taken to the three nearby hospitals.

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.

The Tula provincial court on Wednesday handed down a two-month arrest for the driver of this bus, Garnik Harutyunyan.