VORONEZH, February 7 (RIA Novosti) - Five people were killed and 13 injured in a traffic accident early Wednesday morning on a federal highway linking Moscow and the southern city of Rostov-on-Don, the local emergency situations ministry said.
The tragedy occurred in the Voronezh Region, about 310 miles south of Moscow, when a Setra bus with two drivers and 18 passengers aboard collided with a Kamaz truck, a spokesman for the ministry said.
It is the second major accident in the past 24 hours on this federal highway.
On Tuesday afternoon, at the 97th kilometer (60th mile) marker of the highway in the Moscow Region, a truck driver lost control of his long-haul vehicle, sending it skidding sideways along the slippery highway and causing about 30 cars to crash into it.
Five people were reported injured in the pileup.
