Six people died in the Jewish Autonomous Region in an accident involving a passenger train and a minibus.

Six people died in the Jewish Autonomous Region in an accident involving a passenger train and a minibus.

A passenger train collided Saturday night with a minibus at a railroad crossing in the Jewish Autonomous Region (JAO), six bus passengers were killed, another was seriously injured, reports the press service of the region's Ministry of Emergency Situations. "Today at 19:55 local time (12:55 Moscow time) at a railway crossing in the Dezhnevka JAO settlement area, a traffic accident occurred - a passenger train collided with a minibus," the message reads.