( RIA Novosti ) - A major road accident involving a cement mixer truck killed six people Wednesday in the town of Dubna in the north of the Moscow Region, a source in the local traffic police said.
The two vehicles collided approximately at 18.00 Moscow time, killing five people at the scene, a sixth person died later in hospital.
The circumstances surrounding the crash are being established.
This is the second major car accident in less than a week. On September 28, a female driver hit a group of children in the Odintsovo district west of Moscow, injuring two children aged six and seven.