As a result of the incident, 52 people were killed. At the time of the fire in the car there were 55 passengers and two drivers.

The citizenship of the victims is now being established. According to the official representative of the Emergency Situations Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan Ruslan Imankulov, the accident occurred at 10.

30 am in the Irgiz region of the Aktyubinsk region at the 1068th kilometer of the Samara-Shymkent highway. Ten kilometers from the village of Kalybai, during the movement, a passenger bus of the brand Ikarus.

Imankulov also noted that five passengers managed to get out, they received medical help. Other passengers died on the spot.

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, in Zaporozhye region on Wednesday morning, January 17, a passenger bus that followed the route Mariupol-Kharkov, collided with a car. As a result of the accident, two people were killed.