BISHKEK — Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov has ordered the International Ministry, Emergencies Ministry, and the nation’s airport administration to arrange the expedited repatriation of 14 Kyrgyz residents killed in a site visitors accident in Russia’s Ulyanovsk area over the weekend.
Japarov’s press service issued a assertion on August 22 expressing condolences to kinfolk, mates, and colleagues of these killed within the August 21 site visitors accident. A nationwide day of mourning has been set for August 23.
The Kyrgyz International Ministry and Kyrgyz Embassy in Russia stated 16 individuals, together with 14 Kyrgyz nationals and two Russian residents, died within the accident, whereas one other three Kyrgyz residents — two males and one girl — are in hospital in critical situation.
Video footage broadcast by the police confirmed the crumpled husk of what seemed to be a minibus sandwiched between two lorries and emergency service staff later inspecting the flattened automobile.
Kubanychbek Erkinjan Uulu, a cousin of one of many males hospitalized, stated that he and several other different Kyrgyz migrant staff have been in one other automobile coming back from the Russian-Kazakh border after they witnessed the lethal accident.
“The minibus with our individuals was ready behind an enormous truck in a line of automobiles when one other massive automobile rammed it from behind, actually crushing it right into a pancake,” Erkinjan Uulu informed RFE/RL, including that such journeys are common for migrant staff as they’re required by Russian regulation to resume their work standing by leaving after which reentering the nation after a sure time frame.
“My cousin is now capable of discuss, however says he doesn’t really feel his legs,” Erkinjan Uulu stated.
The Russian Investigative Committee has launched a probe into the site visitors accident.
