Authorities in Ukraine's Russian-controlled Crimea region say five people were killed when a commuter train collided with a minibus on the peninsula.

At least three other people were hospitalized with injuries following the April 8 accident, which occurred at a railway crossing in Crimea's northern city of Armyansk.

Two people reportedly were in intensive care.

All the dead and wounded were said to be passengers of the minibus.

Based on reporting by TASS and Interfax </s> MOSCOW, April 8 (Xinhua) -- At least five people were killed and four others were injured after a minibus collided with a train in the northern part of the Crimea Peninsula on Sunday, local police said.

The bus operating the route between Sevastopol in the southwest and Armyansk in the north crashed with the train running from Kerch in the east to Armyansk at a railway crossing in the suburb of Armyansk, said Olga Kondrashova, spokesperson for the Interior Ministry's Crimean branch.

The bus was carrying 13 people when the accident happened. No children were among the casualties.

Crimea was incorporated into Russia in March 2014 following a local referendum. Ukraine says the peninsula was annexed. </s> "A road accident occurred near the town of Armiansk at a railway crossing. A shuttle bus collided with a shuttle train. Five people were killed and four suffered injuries in the accident," Olga Kondrashova said.

Earlier in the day, a source in the regional emergency services told Sputnik about the incident, adding that according to preliminary figures five people were killed and five more were injured. Representatives of the crisis center set up at the scene of the accident told Sputnik that there were 13 people in the shuttle bus. </s> A deadly road traffic incident with a bus and a truck occurred early on Sunday in Russia's Tatarstan, claiming the lives of at least 10 people and injuring 12, Sputnik reported citing a spokesman of the local Interior Ministry.

"According to the preliminary data, as a result of the road incident involving a truck and a bus 10 people died," the spokesman said, adding than 12 more people were wounded.

The local Emergency Ministry reported the same day that the bus en route Samara-Izhevsk and the "Kamaz" truck collided and set on fire.

The investigators have arrived to the scene to establish the circumstances of the incident. </s> At least 14 people, including four children, were killed and 15 injured when a bus collided with a truck towing another vehicle, with all three overturning and catching fire in the Russian Republic of Tatarstan.

The incident occurred near the city of Zainsk, some 300km east of the republic’s capital, Kazan, on Saturday night. A passenger bus collided with a moving a KAMAZ vehicle which was towing a MAN truck.

The bus was traveling from the city of Samara to Izhevsk with 28 passengers on board, Tatarstan’s Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin said in a statement, confirming that 14 people were killed. At least five of those injured are in a serious condition, he added.

At least four children are among those killed in the tragedy, Elvira Gazizova from a local branch of Russia’s Investigative Committee, told RIA Novosti. The youngest was nearly a year old (born in 2016), she added.

After the collision the bus overturned and caught fire. The blaze spread in the bus in a few seconds, RIA Novosti cited local police.

“I heard people shouting: ‘Get out’... I got through [the bus] and [finally] I was pulled out. I saw the bus getting more on fire and we ran. Suddenly an explosion rocked [the area],” a passenger from the bus, Aleksandra Samoleonne, told Channel One Russia.

Another passenger, Maria Novoselova, said she was sleeping when the accident took place.

“I wanted to escape via the right side of the bus, but it was in flames,” she said, adding that she eventually escaped via an emergency exit.

The Investigative Committee is looking into three possible causes of the accident: the bus driver may have been blinded by headlights, have fallen asleep at the wheel or failed to control the bus as he attempted to overtake the truck, Russia’s RIA Novosti reported.

The driver of the MAN truck is being questioned, local police said. The two other drivers, of the bus and KAMAZ vehicle, are currently in hospital and will be questioned later, they added. </s> BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) - A train has slammed into a bus in southern Serbia killing three people and injuring 22.

Serbian police say that the collision took place around 0630GMT (1:30 a.m. EST) Friday near the city of Nis. The statement says that the injured have been transferred to a nearby hospital.

Doctors say six of the injured have been seriously hurt.

The Serbian state TV says that the bus was carrying local children to school. A video from the scene shows that the bus was practically cut in half from the impact while the train partly slid off the tracks. </s> A train has slammed into a bus in southern Serbia, killing three people and injuring 22, AP reported. The collision took place around 6:30am GMT on Friday near the city of Nis, Serbian police say. The injured have been transferred to a nearby hospital, according to the statement. Doctors say six of the casualties have been seriously hurt. Serbian state TV says that the bus was carrying local children to school. A video from the scene shows that the vehicle was cut in half from the impact, while the train partly slid off the tracks. </s> Russian state-run TASS news agency says at least 10 people have been killed in a collision between a truck and a bus near the city of Zainsk in the Tatarstan region. TASS cited a spokesperson for the local police department as saying the accident occurred on July 2 sometime between 12:40 a.m. and 4 a.m. The report said a bus was traveling from the Volga-area city of Samara to Izhevsk when it overturned after colliding with a truck.

Start the conversation, or Read more at Weekday Magazine. </s> Russian officials say at least 14 people have been killed after a bus caught fire following a nighttime collision with a truck that was being towed and six other people have been killed in separate road accidents.

The bus crash took place early Sunday in Russia's central Tatarstan Republic. Footage from the scene showed the burnt-out shell of the bus. Russian investigators said a criminal case has been opened.

In other deadly road accidents, four people died early Sunday after a car hit a tree near the city of Nizhny Novgorod, east of Moscow, and two teenagers were killed late Saturday when a truck plowed into a bus stop in the western Russian city of Bryansk.

Russia has a poor road safety record with over 20,000 official traffic fatalities last year.
A bus collides with a train near Armyansk, Crimea, killing five people and injuring four others.