INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Updated with new death toll.At least seven people have died and six injured after a passenger bus plunged into a river in central St
Petersburg policesaid around 20 passengers were on board the bus when it fell off a bridge into the Moika River at around 1:00 p.m
Surveillance video shared by law enforcement showed the bus making a U-turn and crashing through a bridge railing before nosediving into the
water.The driver was arrested and charged with traffic violations, St
Petersburg police announced on Telegram
If found guilty, he faces up to seven years in prison.The St
four other passengers who are in a state of clinical death, the St
Petersburg-based news outlet Fontanka reported, citing anonymous sources.Fontanka later claimed that it identified the driver as a
Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov wrote on Telegram.According to State Duma deputy Biysultan Khamzaev, three natives of Russia's North
Caucasus republic of Dagestan were the first to start rescuing those trapped inside the bus before official rescuers arrived.
