Two people killed in Lux Express bus crash in Russia

Two people were killed on Sunday evening after an Estonian passenger coach belonging to Lux Express and a snowplow collided in Russia.
Lux Express board member Ingmar Roos said the accident occurred 15 kilometers from the Russian border city Ivangorod in the direction of St. Petersburg.
"According to preliminary information, the bus collided with a snowplow. There is currently no official information about the causes of the accident," he said.
The coach departed from Tallinn at 2:30 p.m. and was traveling to St. Petersburg.
There were 22 passengers and the bus driver on board at the time of the accident. Among them were two Estonians, 16 Russians, two Germans, one Moldovan and one Polish citizen.
Thirteen people were taken to Kingisepp Hospital, including 11 passengers, as well as the bus driver and the driver of the snowplow.
The nationalities of the two passengers who died are unknown.

The Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that, to its knowledge, no Estonian citizens died in the accident. One Estonian had been taken to hospital, the ministry confirmed, but it had was no information about the other.
The Estonian Embassy in Moscow has been contacted for assistance regarding one Estonian citizen who was involved in an accident. The embassy said in addition to two Estonian citizens, there was also a Russian citizen with an Estonian residence permit on the bus.
At around 10 a.m. on Monday, the Russian publication Fontanka reported that a 60-year-old woman and her 61-year-old husband died at the scene of the accident.
Both drivers, as well as an 11-year-old boy and a 37-year-old man, are in critical condition in hospital, it wrote.
The outlet also wrote that the 49-year-old bus driver is from St. Petersburg. An 11-year-old boy who was taken to the hospital with skull and vertebral fractures is also from St. Petersburg.

One of the bus passengers told the publication that the accident happened suddenly, with no braking or warning signals preceding the collision.
According to an eyewitness, the bus driver had to be cut out of the cabin.
Video and photographs taken by emergency services in the Leningrad oblast show the snowplow driver's cabin was severely damaged, and rescuers cut the driver out of the wreckage.
The eyewitness also said there were two children on the bus. One appeared to be unharmed, while the other was taken to hospital unconscious.
This article has been updated to add comments from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and additional details about the incident from Fontanka.
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