At least 26 people were killed and 12 injured in a road accident between a bus, a car and a tanker truck in western Ukraine, the national police announced on Wednesday. “A total of 26 people died — 24 passengers and two drivers — and 12 others were injured, including the tanker driver,” police said on their Telegram channel, accompanying the statement with a photo of blurred corpses. lined up along a road.
At the time of the accident, in the Rivne region, “there were 34 passengers and a driver” in a bus “which was going to Poland”, indicated the same source, without specifying whether these people were fleeing fighting between armies Ukrainian and Russian, concentrated in the east.
Police, rescuers and forensic experts are “complete the inspection of the scene”, police added.
Three people still might not be identified, according to this source.
On Tuesday evening, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had mentioned in his daily speech to Ukrainians “a terrible road accident”.
“A bus, a car and a tanker truck crashed into it,” he said in a video posted on Telegram, speaking of “17 dead” and sending his condolences to the relatives of the victims.
