Six killed as shortcut minibus falls through river ice
An overcrowded minibus fell through ice after the driver took a shortcut across a frozen river, killing six passengers and injuring the other nine people on board, Russian emergency officials said today.
The minibus was carrying workers to Moscow late yesterday when the driver decided to cross the frozen Oka River in the Nizhny Novgorod region, about 250 miles east of the capital, said Emergency Situations Ministry spokeswoman Irina Andriyanova.
