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Russia: 19 killed in passenger bus-train collision

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Around 19 people have been killed after a passenger bus was hit by a shuttle train in the Vladimir region east of Moscow.

According to Sputnik news agency, the authorities said that the bus drove into the train’s path of the train at a railway crossing.

Kazakhistan Foreign Ministry spokesman, Anuar Zhainakov, said that two Kazakh nationals were the drivers of the bus. One of them died. As per reports, the bus had a Kazakh license plate and passengers were from Uzbekistan.

Regional authorities identified 15 Uzbek nationals as victims.

More details are awaited.

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