TATARSTAN CAR CRUSH VICTIMS’ IDENTITIES ANNOUNCED

PanARMENIAN.Net
November 15, 2011 – 18:14 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – Armenian Foreign Ministry provided data on 4
Armenians who died in a car crash in Tatarstan: citizens of Armenia
Karen Amirjanyan (born 1974), Araik Mukhaelyan (born 1966), Meruzhan
Galstyan (born 1966) and a citizen of Russia Yura Galtakhchyan
(born 1960).

The car crash occurred on Tatarstan’s Kazan-Orenburg highway, when
a driver of a Chery automobile lost control of the wheel, switched
the lane, hit a Ford Transit bus and rolled over the mountain.

According to inofficial data, summer tires which failed the driver
on an ice-covered highway caused the accident. The bus passengers
weren’t hurt.

The investigation is under way.