RUSSIA:A bus transporting factory workers was hit by a train in southern Russia yesterday, leaving 21 people dead and six severely injured, the emergency situations ministry said.
Ministry spokesman Sergei Kozhemyaka said in Rostov-on-Don that all the victims were on the bus, which was carrying 27 people from a local factory.
The accident occurred at an unguarded train crossing near the village of Voronezhskaya in heavy fog. The train engine was derailed in the incident, said another ministry spokesman, Viktor Beltsov. The bus was severely damaged, complicating rescue efforts. No one on the train was hurt, he said.
The train was travelling from the resort city of Mineralnye Vody to Krasnodar, about 1,207km (750 miles) south of Moscow.