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.
“In total, 26 people died – 24 passengers and two drivers – and 12 others were injured, including the driver of the tanker,” the police announced on their Telegram channel, accompanying the press release 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”, added the police.
Three people still could 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 broadcast on Telegram, speaking of “17 dead” and sending his condolences to the relatives of the victims.