MOSCOW, February 9 (RIA Novosti) - Five people, including a West Siberian official, were killed and another one severely injured in a car crash outside Moscow, a police source said on Monday.
The incident involved a Toyota Camry car and a Zhiguli car that collided in the Orekhovo-Zuyevo municipality in eastern Moscow on Sunday.
"Five people were killed and another one badly injured. A passenger in the Zhiguli, Sergei Stepanov, born in 1954, a first deputy head of the Yamal-Nenets autonomous area's representation at the Russian government, was among those killed," the source said.
According to preliminary reports, two victims were Stepanov's relatives, the source added.
In another accident on Sunday, five people died in the Russian republic of Mordovia when a Zhiguli car collided with an oncoming Mitsubishi vehicle on Sunday. One passenger was hospitalized with severe wounds.
