MOSCOW: Fourteen people were killed on Saturday and 16 injured in a traffic accident outside Moscow involving a truck, a passenger bus and several other vehicles, officials said.
Police said that according to initial information, the accident took place when the truck which was carrying a cargo of gravel turned onto a main road and ploughed into the bus.
The interior ministry said that the 14 killed included a young child.
The emergencies ministry had earlier given an initial death toll of 12.
The bus, which was taking passengers on a regular public transport route from Podolsk to Zhokhovo in the Moscow region was broken up into two parts by the force of the collision, the RIA Novosti news agency reported. (AFP)
