Uzbekistan to support its citizens suffered in the vehicle crash in Kazakhstan

Almaty. June 23. Silkroadnews – Uzbekistan will support its citizens injured or affected in accident on the highway in the Aktyubinsk region, UzTAG reports.
“The consular department of the ministry of foreign affairs and the embassy of the Republic of Uzbekistan in Kazakhstan undertake to identify the persons injured or affected to provide the due assistance”, the statement reads quoting the Uzbek foreign ministry’s official saying.
To remind, at 10.20 a.m. on June 22, 2017, passenger double-decker Mercedes bus roll-over was registered on the Samara-Shymkent motor way in the Aitekebi region of the Aktyubinsk oblast. The bus carried 52 people, 50 citizens of Uzbekistan and 2 citizens of Kazakhstan on the route Volgograd (Russia) – Shymkent. Roll-over left 9 citizens of Uzbekistan killed and 18 passengers, 17 of them are citizens of Uzbekistan and one citizen of the Republic of Kazakhstan, hospitalized.
A special group of the ministry of internal affairs of Kazakhstan has been formed to investigate the accident.