Plane flies to Aktobe to bring road accident victims to Uzbekistan

Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.uz) -- Special plane left for Aktobe (Kazakhstan) to bring victims of the road accident into territory of Uzbekistan, the press service of the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said.

At 10:20 on 22 June 2017 the two-story Mercedes passenger bus rolled over in Aktobe region of Kazakhstan on the 946 km of the Samara-Shymkent route.

During the road accident, there were 52 people on the bus, 50 of them are citizens of Uzbekistan and 2 - citizens of Kazakhstan. The bus was heading on route Volgograd-Shymkent.

According to preliminary information, as a result of the accident, 9 citizens of Uzbekistan were killed.

Ministry of Emergency Situations of Uzbekistan organized a telephone hotline to provide information about the state of the victims and other incident-related issues.

The leadership of Uzbekistan expresses its deepest condolences to the families and friends of the dead, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said.