5 people perished in traffic accident in Kharkiv

As a result of a traffic accident which took place on Sunday near Kharkiv, 5 people died.

The Directorate on Emergency Issues disclosed to UNIAN that at 13.48 pm a Mercedes   appeared at the median strip and collided with a Krasnoutsk – Kharkiv fixed-run taxi at the Kharkiv – Kyiv – Dovzhanskyi road. As a result of the collision, the car and the bus took fire.

All 5 people in the Mercedes died. 19 passengers of the bus received injures and 6 of them were hospitalized.