YEREVAN. – Bodies of the eight passengers, who had died in the Armenian bus crash in Russia, on Friday were taken to their homes in different parts of Armenia, from the Republican Scientific-Practical Center of Forensic Medicine, in capital city Yerevan (PHOTOS).

One of the dead will be laid to rest on the same day, whereas the rest will be buried on Saturday.

The 32 passengers, who had received minor injuries or none at all in this bus crash, had arrived in Yerevan on Thursday evening, with a special flight by an aircraft of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations. Ten of them, however, were immediately taken to hospital from the airport, and eight of them were discharged on Friday morning.

Bodies of the eight passengers, who were killed in the crash, also were brought to Armenia with the aforementioned special flight.

Several 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 Russia.

Seven people were killed on the spot while another passenger died in hospital.

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 is under arrest.