Eight killed in Russian minibus crash

A minibus collided with a lorry on a road in central Russia, killing eight people and seriously injuring six others, reports said today.

The Gazel minibus was travelling fast when it hit the Kamaz lorry on a highway between the Mordovia region capital of Saransk and the Volga River city of Ulyanovsk on Saturday, reports said. Saransk is 310 miles southeast of Moscow.