Mayor of Kiev Vitali Klichko instructed to check the carriers of the capital because of the death of two pedestrians after a collision with a minibus. This was reported by the press service of the Kyiv City State Administration.

"I instructed to check the availability of licenses from all private carriers whose buses operate in Kiev and the technical condition of these vehicles. And also whether the conditions of the drivers' work, their professional experience, health control of drivers who travel to the routes and transport passengers are in accordance with the conditions of licenses, "Klitschko noted..

Also, the mayor of Kiev instructed to check the standards of work and the technical condition of communal minibuses.

Earlier, the Kiev police reported that on Saturday in Kiev on Prospect Heroes of Stalingrad, near the metro station "Heroes of the Dnieper" minibus killed a man and a woman to death.

"Under the wheels of a fixed-route taxi there were a woman and a man, born in 1952 and 1953. It turned out that these are spouses, local residents, "the message says..

The woman died from the injuries received on the spot, and the man - in the ambulance on the way to the hospital.

Eyewitnesses told the police that the man and the woman were at a public transport stop.

"When the trolley stopped in the second lane, they came out onto the roadway behind the minibus parked at the bus stop and got under the wheels of the other one, who was arriving at the stop," the witnesses explained to the policemen.

The drivers of the trolleybus and minibus will take tests to check that during the accident they were not in a state of intoxication.

Now the police decides whether to open criminal proceedings under art.. 286 "Violation of road safety rules" of the Criminal Code.