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Moscow-Yerevan Bus Crash Death Toll Reaches 9

A 68-year-old woman who was injured in a fatal bus crash on November 3 has died. As reported by the RA Ministry of Health, Hripsime Serikonyan who had sustained severe head injuries and had been fighting for her life in Uzlovsky hospital since the accident died in the early hours of Saturday.

As of November 7 morning, 11 of the injured people still remain in hospital in “serious but stable” condition. Two of them have been transferred from Uzlovsky to hospitals in Moscow.

Recall, eight people were killed and 47 others were injured, most of them Armenian citizens, early on Tuesday when a bus en route from Moscow to Yerevan, belonging to an Armenian King Deluxe transport company, veered off the road and overturned in Uzlovsky district of Russia's Tula region. 

Preliminary data states, a possible malfunction in the bus may have caused the crash. According to another version, the driver may have fallen asleep at the wheel and lost control of the vehicle.