The death toll in an accident involving a minivan and a truck on the Ural federal highway in Russia’s Penza region has risen to eight people, reported from Russian media.

One victim died in the ambulance and another was hospitalized in serious condition.

Earlier, the regional traffic police reported that at the 504th kilometer of the M-5 Ural federal highway, the driver of a minivan, while moving towards Moscow, drove into the oncoming lane, where it collided with a Volvo truck.

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