KEMEROVO, Russia -- Six miners have been killed in a road accident in Russia's Siberian region of Kemerovo, local officials say.
The regional Health Department said that a bus that was transporting miners to the Raspadsky coal mine on February 8 turned over, killing six people and injuring 17, four of them seriously.
Regional traffic police said the bus turned over and fell down a 10-meter drop near the town of Mezhdurechensk.
The Kemerovo prosecutor's office said it had launched an investigation into the accident.
