The death toll in the collision of a bus and a train in the Vladimir region has grown to 19 people, said a spokesperson for the Moscow Interregional Administration for Transport Investigation Committee Elena Markovskaya.

She noted that among the dead - three children, writes Lenta. RU.

A spokesman for the governor of the Vladimir region Rita Shlyakhova told RIA Novosti that among the dead were 15 citizens of Uzbekistan.

"Last night, a bus with Kazakh numbers, in which citizens of Uzbekistan rode, was driving around the cork in Orekhovsky, at the crossing the bus stopped. People on the bus slept, there were 50 people, the driver shouted, 34 people jumped from the bus to push. They survived, those who stayed on the bus died. It literally broke ", - said Shlyakhtina.

The clash near the Pokrov railway station occurred at 03:39 local time on October 6. The cause of the collision was a bus that had stalled on the railway tracks.